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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Massive slaughter, as in war; a massacre.
  2. n. Corpses, especially of those killed in battle.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The flesh of slain animals; heaps of flesh, as in shambles.
  2. n. The flesh that is given to dogs after the chase.
  3. n. Great destruction of men or animals by bloody violence; slaughter; butchery; massacre.
  4. n. Synonyms Butchery, etc. See massacre, n.
  5. To strew or cover with carnage or slaughtered bodies: as, “that carnaged plain,”

Wiktionary

  1. n. Death and destruction.
  2. n. What remains after a massacre, e. g. the corpses or gore.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Flesh of slain animals or men.
  2. n. Great destruction of life, as in battle; bloodshed; slaughter; massacre; murder; havoc.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the savage and excessive killing of many people

Etymologies

  1. From Middle French carnage, from Latin carnaticum ("slaughter of animals"), itself from Latin carnem, accusative of caro ("flesh"). (Wiktionary)
  2. 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. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (6)

Words with the same meaning

  1. bloodshed
  1. slaughter
  1. massacre
  1. murder
  1. havoc
  1. bloodbath

hypernyms (3)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. murder
  1. execution
  1. slaying

hyponyms (9)

Words that are more specific

  1. Little Bighorn
  1. battue
  1. bloodshed
  1. bloodbath
  1. Alamo
  1. bloodletting
  1. custer's last stand
  1. Battle of Little Bighorn
  1. battle of the little bighorn

same context (21)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. bloodshed
  2. devastation
  3. slaughter
  4. havoc
  1. butchery
  2. desolation
  3. pillage
  4. turmoil
  1. conflagration
  2. mayhem
  3. catastrophe
  4. uproar
  1. strife
  2. atrocity
  3. persecution
  4. suffer
  1. pestilence
  2. brutality
  3. anarchy
  4. plunder
  1. famine

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. slaughterdom
  2. carriage-gear
  1. carnage
  2. chaple
  1. slaughterhouse
  2. bloodthirsty
  1. butchery
  2. shambles
  1. internecine
  2. slaughter
  1. flesh
  2. sanguinary
  1. motor-wheel

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