Synonyms for carnage
ˈkɑr nɪdʒcar·nage

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1. carnagenoun

   Synonyms:
   bloodbath, massacre

2. carnagenoun

   Death and destruction.

   Synonyms:
   massacre, bloodbath

3. carnagenoun

   What remains after a massacre, e. g. the corpses or gore.

   Synonyms:
   bloodbath, massacre

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1. carnage

   A massacre is the indiscriminate killing in numbers of the unresisting or defenseless; butchery is the killing of men rudely and ruthlessly as cattle are killed in the shambles. Havoc may not be so complete as massacre, nor so coldly brutal as butchery, but is more widely spread and furious; it is destruction let loose, and may be applied to organizations, interests, etc., as well as to human life; "as for Saul, he made havoc of the church," Acts viii, 3. Carnage (Latin caro, carnis, flesh) refers to widely scattered or heaped up corpses of the slain; slaughter is similar in meaning, but refers more to the process, as carnage does to the result; these two words only of the group may be used of great destruction of life in open and honorable battle, as when we say the enemy was repulsed with great slaughter, or the carnage was terrible.

   Synonyms:
   butchery, havoc, massacre, slaughter

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. carnage

   Synonyms:
   massacre, slaughter, bloodshed, butchery

   Antonyms:
   ransom, deliverance, quarter

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.4 / 5 votes

1. slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butcherynoun

   the savage and excessive killing of many people

   Synonyms:
   trouncing, thrashing, abattoir, debacle, walloping, mass murder, drubbing, butchery, whipping, butchering, slaughterhouse, shambles, massacre, slaughter

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1. • Murder

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1. carnagenoun

   Synonyms:
   slaughter, butchery, massacre, murder, bloodshed, havoc

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1. List of paraphrases for "carnage":

   massacre, butchery, bloodbath, slaughter, bloodshed, mayhem, killing, rampage, shambles

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How to use carnage in a sentence?

1. David Barbe:

   In emergency rooms across the country, the carnage of gun violence has become a too routine experience. It doesn't have to be this way, and we urge lawmakers to act.

2. Pam Ramsden:

   Although the news media blurred the events, it was easy to find them and watch them in graphic detail, so while there was an effort to protect the public from that, it wouldn't be useful because the people who are traumatizing themselves would be the very people who would search online to watch the footage of the carnage.

3. Phillip Stella:

   When dealing with death and carnage it’s a shock to our conscience, as far as I know this is the first cannibalism charge in Idaho.

4. Nathan Sales:

   The Russian army fights dirty. Look at the carnage in Syria and you ’ll have an idea of what the Kremlin is capable of in Ukraine, we’re already seeing reports that Russian forces are indiscriminately attacking civilian areas across the country, and we simply ca n’t expose our people to that risk.

5. Joe Biden:

   Imagine if I stood here and said we give immunity to drug companies, we give immunity to tobacco companies. That has caused carnage on our streets, 150 million people have been killed since 2007 when Bernie voted to exempt the gun manufacturers from liability, more than all the wars, including Vietnam from that point on.