carnage
Death and destructionDeath and destruction.
» There was carnage.
Значение
значений: 5(неисчисляемое, обычно)Death and destruction.
There was carnage after the school play ended with 96 deaths.
Gemetzel, Abschlachtung
резня́reznjá, бо́йняbójnja, побо́ищеpobóišče
(неисчисляемое, обычно)The corpses, gore, etc. that remain after a massacre.
(переносно, неисчисляемое, обычно)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.
(переносно, сленг, неисчисляемое, обычно)A heavy drinking binge and its aftermath.
(переносно, сленг, неисчисляемое, обычно)Any chaotic situation.
- the savage and excessive killing of many people
Примеры
предложений: 4There was carnage.
It was a scene of carnage.
Police encountered a scene of unspeakable carnage.
In his address, Macron spoke of the sacrifices of lives made a century ago in the four years of carnage in Europe.
Переводы
языков: 7По значениям 1
По значениям 1
Происхождение
Borrowed from Middle French carnage, from a Norman or Picard variant Old Northern French)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.
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Формы
мн. число: carnages| Ед. число | carnage |
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неисчисляемое
Синонимы
синонимов: 6- the savage and excessive killing of many people:slaughtermassacremass murderbutchery
Однокоренные
связанных слов: 2Уроки к слову
уроков: 1- A1Исчисляемые и неисчисляемые существительные — Потому что оно может быть неисчисляемым