carnage
Death and destructionDeath and destruction.
» There was carnage.
Значення
значень: 5(незлічуване, зазвичай)Death and destruction.
There was carnage after the school play ended with 96 deaths.
Gemetzel, Abschlachtung
резня́reznjá, бо́йняbójnja, побо́ищеpobóišče
(незлічуване, зазвичай)The corpses, gore, etc. that remain after a massacre.
(переносно, незлічуване, зазвичай)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, незлічуване, зазвичай)A heavy drinking binge and its aftermath.
(переносно, сленг, незлічуване, зазвичай)Any chaotic situation.
- the savage and excessive killing of many people
Приклади
речень: 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.
Переклади
мов: 7За значеннями 1
За значеннями 1
Походження
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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Форми
множина: carnages| Однина | carnage |
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незлічуване
Синоніми
синонімів: 6- the savage and excessive killing of many people:slaughtermassacremass murderbutchery
Спільнокореневі
пов’язаних слів: 2Уроки до слова
уроків: 1- A1Злічувані та незлічувані іменники — Бо воно може бути незлічуваним