'Carnage' definitions:
Definition of 'carnage'
(from WordNet)
noun
The savage and excessive killing of many people [syn: slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery]
Definition of 'Carnage'
From: GCIDE
- Carnage \Car"nage\, n. [F. carnage, LL. carnaticum tribute of animals, flesh of animals, fr. L. caro, carnis, flesh. See Carnal.]
- 1. Flesh of slain animals or men. [1913 Webster]
- A miltitude of dogs came to feast on the carnage. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Great destruction of life, as in battle; bloodshed; slaughter; massacre; murder; havoc. [1913 Webster]
- The more fearful carnage of the Bloody Circuit. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'carnage'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- bloodbath,
- bloodshed,
- blue ruin,
- breakup,
- butchery,
- consumption,
- damnation,
- decimation,
- depredation,
- desolation,
- despoilment,
- despoliation,
- destruction,
- devastation,
- disintegration,
- disorganization,
- disruption,
- dissolution,
- final solution,
- genocide,
- havoc,
- hecatomb,
- holocaust,
- killing,
- mass destruction,
- mass murder,
- massacre,
- perdition,
- pogrom,
- race extermination,
- race-murder,
- ravage,
- ruin,
- ruination,
- saturnalia of blood,
- shambles,
- slaughter,
- spoliation,
- undoing,
- vandalism,
- waste,
- wholesale murder,
- wrack,
- wrack and ruin,
- wreck