carnification UK /ˌkɑːnɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/US /ˌkɑɹnɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/ noun6 •The literal transformation of something into flesh or meat.Stranger yet, at the point where the wood met the man's flesh, there was a type of carnification taking place in which it looked like the material was a mix of half-wood half-flesh. — 2021 •A pathological process in which chronic inflammation or infection causes lung tissue to organize into a fibrous form that resembles meat, which can lead to a loss of normal lung function.The lesions alluded to are those which have been hitherto described under the names of lobular pneumonia and carnification. — 1858 •A similar pathological transformation to other types of tissue so that it becomes fibrous and dense.The liver was not cirrhosed, as he had believed, but was in a state of carnification. — 1873 •The transformation of something into a human being.Gerald was a Thor. Of course, you are not to take that literally; but if ever there was a carnification of the great god himself, then Gerald was in his image. — 2022 •The process of something nonphysical taking on a physical form (not necessarily involving flesh).But life is lived in such a way that this carnification of implicit ghosts occurs most commonly in joking. — 2017 •Carnal (sexual) activity.There will be no carnification in this house! — 2020 formscarnifications
