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 The carnage of World War II led to several innovations, including tank designs that emphasized armor protection and firepower to an entirely new degree. —

Matthew S Williams, Interesting Engineering, 20 May 2026 Analysts have tried to forecast how much academic carnage will result from this demographic bind. —

Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 19 May 2026 Israel's place in the contest has become contentious as outrage over the carnage in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon and Iran has grown from Rome to Madrid with massive popular protests and European Union politicians mulling new sanctions. —

ABC News, 13 May 2026 The plot is said to follow eight friends competing for a prize when their annual holiday gift exchange spirals into a cutthroat game of carnage. —

Zac Ntim, Deadline, 11 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for carnage

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Honduran soldiers and police officers guard the site of a massacre in Trujillo, Honduras on May 21, 2026.

— CBS News, CBS News, 3 June 2026
Survivors and victims’ families were allowed to go inside the nightclub one final time on the week of the massacre’s ninth anniversary last year.

— Silas Morgan, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 June 2026