Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Massive slaughter, as in war; a massacre.
- n. Corpses, especially of those killed in battle.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The flesh of slain animals; heaps of flesh, as in shambles.
- n. The flesh that is given to dogs after the chase.
- n. Great destruction of men or animals by bloody violence; slaughter; butchery; massacre.
- n. Synonyms Butchery, etc. See massacre, n.
- To strew or cover with carnage or slaughtered bodies: as, “that carnaged plain,”
Wiktionary
- n. Death and destruction.
- n. What remains after a massacre, e. g. the corpses or gore.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Flesh of slain animals or men.
- n. Great destruction of life, as in battle; bloodshed; slaughter; massacre; murder; havoc.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the savage and excessive killing of many people
Etymologies
- French, from Old French, from Old Italian carnaggio, from Medieval Latin carnāticum, meat, from Latin carō, carn-, flesh; see sker-1 in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“The magnitude of the carnage is almost inconceivable.”
A conversation with bestselling author Chris Bohjalian about his novel, Skeletons at the Feast
“If there are still people who don†™ t know what all the carnage is about, follow the money.”
“Three weeks into a new television season, the usual carnage is becoming apparent, with new shows collapsing and crises appearing all over network prime-time schedules.”
“But with films like Re-Animator or Dead Alive, even Evil Dead II, the excessive carnage is making us laugh and fits tonally in with the overall experience of the movie.”
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“The carnage is camp-free on AMC's highly anticipated The Walking Dead, a stark and harrowing survival parable.”
“(How she gets deputies involved in this, and what she does with them after the ensuing carnage, is beyond me.)”
“Being a huge fan of Spider-Man I honestly didn't like any of the changes made, particularly when the Venom "suit" becomes involved and carnage is Peter's blood mutated.”
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“The potential for inter-library carnage is quite unprecedented.”
The Guardian: Swindon provides a new sanctuary for Bodleian Library's treasures
“They only show up after the carnage is done and arrest the survivors.”
““Drive-by shootings,” as if the carnage is part of some video game.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘carnage’.
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Topical
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Unknown
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macabre
words associated with the macabre & horror.
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Gristle and Flesh
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Car- Trouble
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-age
condition; result of; account; number of; cost of; place of; collection of; home of; to act
marriage, acreage, postage, steerage, peerage, hermitage, forage, Hermitage, pilgrimage, baggage, blockage, carnage and 24 more...
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