About The Word Carnage
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Carnage
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What's The Definition Of Carnage?
[n] the savage and excessive killing of many people
Synonyms | Synonyms for Carnage: butchery | mass murder | massacre | slaughter Related Terms | Find terms related to Carnage: bloodbath | bloodshed | blue ruin | breakup | butchery | consumption | damnation | decimation | depredation | desolation | despoilment | despoliation | destruction | devastation | disintegration | disorganization | disruption | dissolution | final solution | genocide | havoc | hecatomb | holocaust | killing | mass destruction | mass murder | massacre | perdition | pogrom | race extermination | race-murder | ravage | ruin | ruination | saturnalia of blood | shambles | slaughter | spoliation | undoing | vandalism | waste | wholesale murder | wrack | wrack and ruin | wreck See Also | Alamo | Battle of Little Bighorn | Battle of the Little Bighorn | battue | bloodbath | bloodletting | bloodshed | Custer's Last Stand | execution | homicide | Little Bighorn | murder | slaying Carnage In Webster's Dictionary \Car"nage\, n. [F. carnage, LL. carnaticum tribute of
animals, flesh of animals, fr. L. caro, carnis, flesh. See
{Carnal}.]
1. Flesh of slain animals or men.
A miltitude of dogs came to feast on the carnage.
--Macaulay.
2. Great destruction of life, as in battle; bloodshed;
slaughter; massacre; murder; havoc.
The more fearful carnage of the Bloody Circuit.
--Macaulay.
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