carnage.
Death and destruction.
Meaning & usage
Death and destruction.
There was carnage after the school play ended with 96 deaths.
The corpses, gore, etc. that remain after a massacre.
Any great loss by a team; a game in which one team wins overwhelmingly.
The game against Sri Lanka and Australia was carnage with Australia winning by 287 runs.
A heavy drinking binge and its aftermath.
Any chaotic situation.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Middle French carnage, from a Norman or Picard variant Old Northern French) of Old French charnage, from char (“flesh”), or from Vulgar Latin *carnaticum (“slaughter of animals”), itself from Latin carnem, accusative of caro (“flesh”). By surface analysis, Latin carn- + -age.
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