as in massacre
the killing of a large number of people
the appalling carnage in that war-torn country requires that the outside world intervene
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Recent Examples of carnage
When the alien craft crash-landed, Wendy volunteered to retrieve the cargo, only to find carnage within.
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Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 17 July 2025
The carnage leads to a sigh of an epilogue that seems, without giving anything away, like a curious letdown, a cruel little snicker from Aster that doesn’t entirely satisfy.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 15 July 2025
Given the numbers, and the cost, expect Netflix to dredge up plenty more tails of carnage and chaos for another season of the Trainwreck strand soon.
—Peter White, Deadline, 8 July 2025
That’s merely a taste of the carnage announced Monday by the Indiana Commission for Higher Education (ICHE), as planned for one of America’s great universities, Indiana University in beautiful Bloomington.
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 7 July 2025
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Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 17 July 2025
The carnage leads to a sigh of an epilogue that seems, without giving anything away, like a curious letdown, a cruel little snicker from Aster that doesn’t entirely satisfy.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 15 July 2025
Given the numbers, and the cost, expect Netflix to dredge up plenty more tails of carnage and chaos for another season of the Trainwreck strand soon.
—Peter White, Deadline, 8 July 2025
That’s merely a taste of the carnage announced Monday by the Indiana Commission for Higher Education (ICHE), as planned for one of America’s great universities, Indiana University in beautiful Bloomington.
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 7 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for carnage
Noun
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Australia has designated Hamas a terrorist entity and Albanese repeated Monday his government's calls for the group to return Israeli hostages held since the Oct. 7, 2023 massacre.—
Bradford Betz,
FOXNews.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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Some Israelis on the left are more aware of this now, but the open wound of both the massacre itself and those twenty live hostages and thirty bodies kept remain obsessions.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
10 Aug. 2025
Noun
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All Robert has to do is slaughter a few dozen members of the Camorra who are terrorizing the place.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
15 Aug. 2025
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Whether farmers use the high prices as an opportunity to expand their herds or instead seek to profit from selling off cows for slaughter will determine whether the U.S. cattle herd continues to shrink, Nelson wrote.—
Reia Li,
AZCentral.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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“Carnage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carnage. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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