Synonyms of carnage

carnage

noun

ˈkär-nij 

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• massacre
• slaughter
• death
• genocide
• butchery
• bloodbath
• holocaust
• murder
• bloodshed
• killing
• devastation
• destruction
• slaying
• mortality
• extermination
• homicide
• annihilation
• manslaughter
• execution
• bloodletting
• assassination
• eradication
• decimation
• foul play
• pogrom
• demolishing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of carnage

What follows is chaos and carnage not unlike that of the original The Evil Dead, but with a bigger budget and a much bleaker tone. — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 10 July 2026

After devising the Trojan horse and unleashing carnage on Troy, the melancholic Odysseus struggles to see good in the world. — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 8 July 2026

By homing in on the psychological torment of winning the crown, the show offers a surprising detour from familiar carnage—while suggesting that disappointment over a seemingly ideal position can be as crushing as a defeat on the battlefield. — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 6 July 2026

Many of its founding members had seen the horrors of World War I up close (Breton and several others had served in the French army) and blamed their fathers’ generation for the carnage. — Susan Rubin Suleiman, The New York Review of Books, 4 July 2026