carnage
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carnage
- /ˈkɑː.nɪdʒ/ UK
- /ˈkɑɹ.nɪd͡ʒ/ US
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Middle French carnage, from a Norman or Picard variant Old Northern French) of Old French charnage, from char (“flesh”), or from Vulgar Latin *carnaticum (“slaughter of animals”), itself from Latin carnem, accusative of caro (“flesh”). By surface analysis, Latin carn- + -age.
noun carnages
- Death and destruction. There was carnage after the school play ended with 96 deaths.
- The corpses, gore, etc. that remain after a massacre.
- Any great loss by a team; a game in which one team wins overwhelmingly. The game against Sri Lanka and Australia was carnage with Australia winning by 287 runs.
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A heavy drinking binge and its aftermath.
The lads had recently returned from a wild summer on the party island of Ibiza, an increasingly popular hotspot for working-class British youth. But this was not a scene of drunken holiday carnage in tacky discos.
Similar: rampage
- Any chaotic situation. Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities, rusted out factories, scattered like tombstones across the across the landscape of our nation, an education system flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge, and the crime, and the gangs,
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: slaughter, butchery, destruction, killing, mortality, shambles, bloodshed, bloodbath, slaying, culling, slaughtering, massacre, genocide, mayhem, mess, free-for-all
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noun what remains after a massacre
| Español | carnicería |
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noun death and destruction
| Español | carnicería, mortandad, mortaldad, escabechina, degollina, carnaje |
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| 한국어 | 대학살 daehaksal |
| 日本語 | 大虐殺 daigyakusatsu, 修羅 shura |
| 中文 | 大屠殺 /大屠杀 dàtúshā, 大屠杀 dàtúshā, 屠殺 /屠杀 túshā, 屠杀 túshā, 慘案 /惨案 cǎn'àn, 惨案 cǎn'àn |
| Português | massacre, carnagem |
| Français | carnage |
| Deutsch | Gemetzel, Abschlachtung |
| Italiano | carneficina, carnaio |
| Ελληνικά | ανθρωποσφαγή anthroposfagí, μακελειό makeleió, εκατόμβη ekatómvi |
| Русский | резня́ reznjá, бо́йня bójnja, побо́ище pobóišče |
| עברית | מרחץ דמים |
Talk about this word "carnage." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/carnage. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. carnage. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/carnage "carnage." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/carnage.Cite this
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title = {carnage},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/carnage},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
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