Body Language: Carn ("Flesh")

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  1. carnal
    of or relating to the body or flesh
    The festival, whose roots lie in a tradition of carnal indulgence before the austere Roman Catholic season of Lent, officially ends next Wednesday. Reuters (Feb 10, 2018)
  2. carnage
    the savage and excessive killing of many people
    We are more accustomed to seeing these kinds of images from war zones, where news photographers are often able to witness the carnage of combat up close. The New Yorker (Jun 1, 2019)
    The Latin and French roots of the synonyms carnage and massacre originally referred only to the slaughter of animals for the purpose of eating their flesh. In English, the meaning extended to refer to violence directed at people.
  3. carnivore
    any animal that feeds on flesh
    The dinosaur was about the same size as the modern mammalian carnivore, and, in its Cretaceous time, it probably pounced on relatively small prey much like modern coyotes do. Scientific American (May 18, 2019)
    carnem + vorare
  4. carrion
    the dead and rotting body of an animal; unfit for human food
    The jaeger preyed upon lemmings, small birds, and occasionally carrion. Julie of the Wolves
    Although its roots are in Latin, this word comes into English via French.
  5. carnassial
    (of a tooth) adapted for shearing flesh
    In the cheek-series there is one specially modified tooth in each jaw, to which the name of “sectorial” or “carnassial” is applied. Various
  6. incarnadine
    redden or make pinkish
    The sun shone again through the tall window, blood-red as before; grass and sky were as richly incarnadined. Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)
    Literally translated from its roots, this word means "to make flesh-colored." Since flesh comes in a wide range of colors, however, it is better defined as "to make pinkish or red."
  7. incarnate
    represent in bodily form
    He’s enjoying this, I thought bitterly, he’s imagining himself Justice incarnate, balancing the scales. A Separate Peace
  8. incarnation
    a new personification of a familiar idea
    Though he’d never paid attention to pop music, he was suddenly its human incarnation. New York Times (Aug 5, 2019)
  9. reincarnation
    a second or new birth
    Tibetan Buddhists believe the current Dalai Lama is the 14th reincarnation of a holy monk who lived in the 14th century. Time (Mar 13, 2015)
  10. disincarnate
    make immaterial; remove the real essence of
    Thus disincarnated beings would seem to resemble incarnate ones on this point also. Sage, Michael
  11. carnival
    a festival marked by merrymaking and processions
    It sounded like a circus or a carnival the way he said it. Miracles on Maple Hill
    carnem + levare ("to lighten, to remove or put away")
  12. charnel
    gruesomely indicative of death or the dead
    An urban flâneur like the central character in Poe’s “The Man of the Crowd,” he immerses himself in Poe’s “The Premature Burial,” only to find himself placed in a coffin, “the world growing charnel, grim.” New York Times (Oct 12, 2018)
    This word is most frequently found in the term charnel house, a building where bodies or bones are deposited.
Created on Thu Jun 04 15:14:24 EDT 2015 (updated Thu Aug 22 13:46:05 EDT 2019)

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