carnage

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Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
13
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈkɑː.nɪdʒ/ (UK)
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/ˈkɑː.nɪdʒ/ (UK) · /ˈkɑɹ.nɪd͡ʒ/ (US)

Definition of carnage

5 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (uncountable, usually)Death and destruction.
    “There was carnage after the school play ended with 96 deaths.”
    “Unleash the wolves / Carnage has no rules / Comparison, competition / We'll bury one and all, all”
    “Carnage consumes all we’ve ever loved / The innocent blistered by the flame / Trial by fire we burn in shame”
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noun

  1. (uncountable, usually)Death and destruction.
    “There was carnage after the school play ended with 96 deaths.”
    “Unleash the wolves / Carnage has no rules / Comparison, competition / We'll bury one and all, all”
    “Carnage consumes all we’ve ever loved / The innocent blistered by the flame / Trial by fire we burn in shame”
  2. (uncountable, usually)The corpses, gore, etc. that remain after a massacre.
  3. (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.”
  4. (figuratively, slang, uncountable, usually)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.”
    “Within three hours we'd drunk the place dry. Miraculously, we all made it back on the bus, but I've never seen a more bacchanalian scene of wanton debauchery than the ride back to the hotel. It was total carnage.”
  5. (figuratively, slang, uncountable, usually)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, and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential. This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

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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