- 屍
- しかばね【屍】¶ → 生ける屍* * *Iかばね【屍】=しかばね.IIしかばね【屍】a corpse; a cadaver; a (dead) body. [=したい4]
●無惨なしかばね a pitiful [piteous] corpse
・生けるしかばね a living [walking] corpse [cadaver]; a person who looks half dead [as if he's just waiting to die]
・今や生けるしかばねと化している. He's already half dead. | He is barely hanging on to the last threads of life. | He already has one foot in the grave.
●累々(るいるい)としかばねが横たわる戦場 a battlefield heaped with corpses.
●しかばねに鞭を打つ speak ill of a dead person.
●戦場にしかばねをさらす fall in battle; leave one's bones on the battlefield.
Japanese-English dictionary. 2013.