carnage

English

Etymology

From Middle French carnage, from Latin carnaticum (“slaughter of animals”), itself from Latin carnem, accusative of caro (“flesh”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈkɑː.nɪdʒ/, X-SAMPA: /"kA:.nIdZ/
• (US) IPA: /ˈkɑɹ.nɪdʒ/, X-SAMPA: /"kAr\.nIdZ/

Noun

carnage (usually uncountable; plural carnages)

1. Death and destruction.
2. What remains after a massacre, e. g. the corpses or gore.

Synonyms

• bloodbath
• massacre

Translations

death and destruction

• Bulgarian: клане (bg) (klane) n, сеч (bg) (seč) f
• Catalan: carnatge (ca) m
• Chinese: 大屠殺, 大屠杀
• Czech: masakr (cs) m, krveprolití (cs) n, řež (cs) f
• Dutch: bloedbad (nl) n
• Finnish: verilöyly (fi)
• French: carnage (fr)
• German: Massaker (de) m
• Greek: ανθρωποσφαγή [anθro̞ˌpo̞sfaˈʝi] f, μακελειό [mace̞ˈʎo̞] n, εκατόμβη [e̞kaˈto̞ɱvi] f
• Hebrew: מרחץ דמים

• Hungarian: vérontás (hu)
• Italian: carneficina (it) f
• Japanese: 大虐殺, 修羅 (しゅら, shura)
• Korean: 대학살
• Old English: wæl (ang)
• Polish: rzeź (pl) f
• Portuguese: massacre (pt) m
• Russian: резня (ru) (r'ezn'á) f, бойня (ru) (bójn'a) f, побоище (ru) (pobóiš'e) n
• Scottish Gaelic: àr m, marbhadh m
• Spanish: carnicería (es) f, masacre (es) m, carnaje (es) m

what remains after a massacre

Anagrams

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