carnage
Death and destructionDeath and destruction.
» There was carnage.
Meaning
5 senses(uncountable, usually)Death and destruction.
There was carnage after the school play ended with 96 deaths.
Gemetzel, Abschlachtung
резня́reznjá, бо́йняbójnja, побо́ищеpobóišče
(uncountable, usually)The corpses, gore, etc. that remain after a massacre.
(figuratively, uncountable, usually)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.
(figuratively, slang, uncountable, usually)A heavy drinking binge and its aftermath.
(figuratively, slang, uncountable, usually)Any chaotic situation.
- the savage and excessive killing of many people
Examples
4 sentencesThere 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.
Translations
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Origin
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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Forms
plural: carnages| Singular | carnage |
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uncountable
Synonyms
6 synonyms- the savage and excessive killing of many people:slaughtermassacremass murderbutchery
Word family
2 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable