noun
Literary or formal term for a dead body; often used in poetic or dramatic contexts. In modern everyday speech, 死体 or 遺体 are more common.
戦場には多くの躯が横たわっていた。
Many corpses lay on the battlefield.
彼はまるで躯のように動かなかった。
He lay motionless like a dead body.
The historical derivation is uncertain. The kanji 躯 is conventionally associated with the meaning 'body' or 'torso'.