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necrophagic en · ADJ

Etymology

From necro- + -phagic.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Eating dead bodies.
   • When they are eating the remainders of their dead fathers, the girls perform all the elements of a necrophagic ritual. 2012, Gabriele Schwab, Imaginary Ethnographies:
   • Ravages of ‘demon claws and teeth’; corpses ‘mangled, chewed and clawed’. The necrophagic passion is very strong in Lovecraft. 1975, Angela Carter, “The Hidden Child”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 546:
2. (not-comparable) That feeds on carrion.

Relateds

necrophagia · necrophagous

Translations (1)

it necrofagico (Translations)