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carnage

[ kahr-nij ]

noun

  1. the slaughter of a great number of people, as in battle; butchery; massacre.
  2. fighting or other violence:

    brutal carnage on the football field.

  3. great damage, utter defeat, or chaos:

    We are charting a way forward after the Election Day carnage.

  4. Archaic. dead bodies, as of those slain in battle.


carnage

/ ˈkɑːnɪdʒ /

noun

  1. extensive slaughter, esp of human beings in battle
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of carnage1

First recorded in 1590–1600; from Middle French, from Italian carnaggio, from Medieval Latin carnāticum “payment or offering in meat,” equivalent to Latin carn- (stem of carō ) “flesh” + -āticum noun sufffix; -age
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Word History and Origins

Origin of carnage1

C16: from French, from Italian carnaggio, from Medieval Latin carnāticum, from Latin carō flesh
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Example Sentences

Excessive speeding was cited as a leading contributor to the carnage.

So that’s a little something to keep in mind as we survey the carnage.

From Time

CNBC has a longer list if you want to feast your eyes on the carnage.

No, he found it in one of Saddam Hussein’s Baghdad palaces in 2004, where the rubble and carnage of the early years of America’s war on terror took a toll on Trotter’s mind.

I just came back and saw the carnage and went down and saw the same.

Female members have been involved in the carnage for the past two years, but never in such an active role.

They logged every incident and released depressing day-by-day accounts of the carnage.

Here's what we know so far about the man allegedly behind the carnage.

When it comes to videos of the carnage that has cost at least 200,000 lives in Syria, few sources have been completely reliable.

This astonishingly simple yet devastatingly graphic representation of mass carnage attracts many thousands of visitors every day.

Only in the carnage of the head, the tilt of the chin, was the insolence expressed that had made her many enemies.

On either side the carnage had been terrible, and the pathways of the village were literally choked with the dead.

The sight of the awful carnage affected even the warworn Marshal, and made him exclaim, "What a massacre!"

The carnage was awful, and the charging columns halted, staggered, and then began to reel back.

But even in that moment he asked himself for the first time since the commencement of that carnage—to what purpose?

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