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. 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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1. Tim Miller:

   My first thought was to pray, having been in situations where that kind of carnage exists – the suffering is unimaginable. My second thought – was this is a realization of what we’ve been talking about and what we help churches prepare for.

2. Chris Norman:

   I looked up and saw a guy carrying an AK-47 or at least I assume it was some kind of machine-gun, it could have been a real carnage, there's no question about that.

3. Lakshheish M Patel:

   People might have noticed that there is not a single tweet on the stock market carnage in May because brokers do not want people to sell out of panic and they could make undue profits out of it and youtubers continue to advise or misguide public to buy for own payments from brokerage houses

4. Judge Inez Cardinal:

   Mr. Sidhu had ample time to react ... had he been paying attention, somehow we must stop this carnage on our highways.

5. Joe Rundle:

   Markets are very nervy at the moment, it's definitely tin hats time. If Leave wins there will be carnage for cable.