Carnage (Noun)
Meaning
The savage and excessive killing of many people.
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Examples
- The streets ran red with the carnage of the brutal civil war that had ravaged the city for years.
- Witnesses described the scene as one of utter carnage after the bomb exploded at the crowded marketplace.
- The carnage resulting from the terrorist attack will be remembered for generations to come as one of the darkest moments in the nation's history.
- Rescue teams were met with scenes of carnage as they made their way through the rubble of the collapsed building.
- The news footage showed the devastating carnage caused by the tsunami that swept through the coastal town.