しかばね【屍】
¶ → 生ける屍
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かばね【屍】
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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.

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