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carnage

noun
/ˈkɑː.nɪdʒ/UK/ˈkɑɹ.nɪd͡ʒ/US

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from *carnaticum✻
  2. borrowed from carnage

Definitions

  1. Death and destruction.

    • There was carnage after the school play ended with 96 deaths.
    • Unleash the wolves / Carnage has no rules / Comparison, competition / We'll bury one and all, all
    • Carnage consumes all we’ve ever loved / The innocent blistered by the flame / Trial by fire we burn in shame

  2. The corpses, gore, etc. that remain after a massacre.

  3. Any great loss by a team

    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.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. A heavy drinking binge and its aftermath.

      • The lads had recently returned from a wild summer on the party island of Ibiza, an increasingly popular hotspot for working-class British youth. But this was not a scene of drunken holiday carnage in tacky discos.
      • Within three hours we'd drunk the place dry. Miraculously, we all made it back on the bus, but I've never seen a more bacchanalian scene of wanton debauchery than the ride back to the hotel. It was total carnage.

    2. Any chaotic situation.

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Derived

carnaged, dot-carnage

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for carnage. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA