Thesaurus results for 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

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Recent Examples of carnage Many of my fellow Filipinos thought that the carnage was justified. —

Sheila Coronel, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026 At first, neither the US nor Israel wanted to take blame for the carnage. —

Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 11 Mar. 2026 Federal prosecutors said the pair hoped to inflict more carnage than the Boston Marathon bombing, which killed three people and injured more than 260 others in 2013. —

Matt Lavietes, NBC news, 10 Mar. 2026 This had been the epicenter of the software carnage. —

Jim Cramer, CNBC, 6 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for carnage

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Conceived in 2015, Goliath’s Elegy comprises performance and video, and addresses femicide killings of trans and gay people in South Africa as well as the Herero and Nama massacre conducted by German colonial forces in the 1900s in what is now Namibia.

— News Desk, Artforum, 25 Mar. 2026
In the days and weeks following the Hamas massacre of innocent Israelis on October 7, 2023, students and colleagues alike in his academic community posted fiery condemnations of and expressions of moral disgust toward … Israel.

— Jesse Brown, The Atlantic, 24 Mar. 2026