carnagenoun [ U ]
uk/ˈkɑː.nɪdʒ/us/ˈkɑːr.nɪdʒ/the violent killing of large numbers of people, especially in war:
The Battle of the Somme was a scene of dreadful carnage.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Killing
- assisted suicide
- commit suicide idiom
- decimation
- do for sb/sth
- drown
- early
- electrocute
- end it (all) idiom
- fatal
- finish
- hara-kiri
- immolate
- killer
- life-threatening
- mercy killing
- mortally
- shooting
- slaughterhouse
- suicide
- terminal
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