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carnage (s) (noun), carnages (pl)
1. Widespread and indiscriminate slaughter or massacre: Wars cost a vast amount of savagery, carnage, and suffering, especially of human beings.

Carnage can also relate to the serious injury to a great multitude of people, as in a major accident.

The slaughter of a great number of people, such as in battle, or the butchery or massacre or a huge number of people, causes carnage with resulting corpses, gore, etc.
2. Etymology: from Old French carnage, from Old Italian carnaggio, "slaughter, murder"; from Medieval Latin carnaticum, "flesh, meat", from Latin carnem or carn-, "flesh".

This entry is located in the following units: -age (page 1) carno-, carn-, carne-, carni- (page 1)
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(Latin > French: wholesale slaughter, carnage; slaughterhouse, butchery)