carrion 
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car·rion (kar′ē ən)
noun
- the decaying flesh of a dead body, esp. when regarded as food for scavenging animals
- anything very disgusting or repulsive
Etymology: ME carioun < Anglo-Fr carogne < VL *caronia, carcass < L caro: see harvest
adjective
- of or like carrion
- feeding on carrion
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Converse of object
- eat: Eagles will usually hunt and kill live animals, but will often eat carrion such as dead hares and sheep.
Modifies a noun
- crow: Soon a carrion crow which has been doing its rounds over the upland fields spots the spill.
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Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwistöslack they may beöthese last strands of man In me or, most weary, cry I can no more. I can; Cansomething, hope, wish daycome, not choose not to be.
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