| 单词 | carnage |
| 释义 | carnage (once / 2192 pages) n Carnage is mass murder. If you have seen news footage of a village after a bomb has been detonated, you probably saw a scene of carnage. Carnage comes from the Latin carnaticum, meaning "flesh" or "slaughter of animals." Carnage is often used to describe the brutal killing of many people, but can also refer to large numbers of animals that have been butchered. WORD FAMILYcarnage: carnages USAGE EXAMPLESMore and more people may conclude that it is the president’s failed, divisive policies that must change if the carnage is to end. The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017) Still, images of the carnage circulated on social media early Sunday. Washington Post(Dec 31, 2016) But China on Friday cemented a timeline to help reduce the carnage, pledging to close down its domestic ivory market within a year. Los Angeles Times(Dec 30, 2016) n the savage and excessive killing of many people Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper butchery, mass murder, massacre, slaughter Alamo a siege and massacre at a mission in San Antonio in 1836; Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico Battle of the Little Bighorna battle in Montana near the Little Bighorn River between United States cavalry under Custer and several groups of Native Americans (1876); Custer was pursuing Sioux led by Sitting Bull; Custer underestimated the size of the Sioux forces (which were supported by Cheyenne warriors) and was killed along with all his command battue, bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed indiscriminate slaughter execution, murder, slaying unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being |
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