• IPA: /ˈkæ.ɹi.ən/

carrion (uncountable)

1. (mostly, uncountable) Dead flesh; carcasses.

   Vultures feed on carrion.

   • They did eat the dead carrions.

   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 119

     Perhaps the Purple Emperor is feasting, as Morris says, upon a mass of putrid carrion at the base of an oak tree.

2. (countable, obsolete, derogatory) A contemptible or worthless person.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Ivlivs Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene i]:

     Old feeble carrions.

• French: charogne
• German: Aas, Kadaver
• Italian: carogna
• Portuguese: carniça
• Russian: па́даль
• Spanish: carroña

• German: Aas

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