carnage

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To encircle the civilian camps of Sabra and Chatila after evacuating the fighters and to unleash on them trained dogs (while providing them with night-illuminating flares for efficiency) and then deny culpability for the carnage is a disease of the mind.

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

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  1. 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.

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  1. from French carnage = Provencal carnatge = Spanish carnaje = Portuguese carnagem = Italian carnaggio, slaughter, butchery, from Middle Latin carnaticum, a kind of tribute of animals, also prob. used, like its equivalent carnatum, in the additional sense of ‘time when it is lawful to eat flesh’ (later F. charnage = Provencal carnatgue (cf. Spanish Portuguese carnal), season when it is lawful to eat flesh; cf. Middle Latin reflex carnagium, a dinner of flesh), from Latin caro (carn-), flesh: see carnal.
  2. from carnage, n.
 

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/ˈkɑrnɑdʒ/
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