carnage
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From Middle French carnage, from Latin carnaticum (“slaughter of animals”), itself from Latin carnem, accusative of caro (“flesh”).
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carnage (usually uncountable; plural carnages)
- Death and destruction.
- What remains after a massacre, e. g. the corpses or gore.
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death and destruction
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what remains after a massacre