Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Massive slaughter, as in war; a massacre.
- noun Corpses, especially of those killed in battle.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The flesh of slain animals; heaps of flesh, as in shambles.
- noun The flesh that is given to dogs after the chase.
- noun Great destruction of men or animals by bloody violence; slaughter; butchery; massacre.
- noun Synonyms Butchery, etc. See
massacre , n. - To strew or cover with carnage or slaughtered bodies: as, “that carnaged plain,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Flesh of slain animals or men.
- noun Great destruction of life, as in battle; bloodshed; slaughter; massacre; murder; havoc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Death and
destruction . - noun What remains after a
massacre , e. g. the corpses or gore.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the savage and excessive killing of many people
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The magnitude of the carnage is almost inconceivable.
A conversation with bestselling author Chris Bohjalian about his novel, Skeletons at the Feast 2010
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If there are still people who don†™ t know what all the carnage is about, follow the money.
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They only show up after the carnage is done and arrest the survivors.
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The carnage is camp-free on AMC's highly anticipated The Walking Dead, a stark and harrowing survival parable.
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They only show up after the carnage is done and arrest the survivors.
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The potential for inter-library carnage is quite unprecedented.
Swindon provides a new sanctuary for Bodleian Library's treasures Vanessa Thorpe 2010
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But with films like Re-Animator or Dead Alive, even Evil Dead II, the excessive carnage is making us laugh and fits tonally in with the overall experience of the movie.
TEN of TERROR #5: Re-Animator « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more 2009
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(How she gets deputies involved in this, and what she does with them after the ensuing carnage, is beyond me.)
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Three weeks into a new television season, the usual carnage is becoming apparent, with new shows collapsing and crises appearing all over network prime-time schedules.
CBS Is On A Roll: NYT The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Being a huge fan of Spider-Man I honestly didn't like any of the changes made, particularly when the Venom "suit" becomes involved and carnage is Peter's blood mutated.
Ultimate Spider-Man Writer Brian Bendis Consulting Spider-Man Reboot? | /Film 2010
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