carnage

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

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Singular
carnage

Plural
uncountable

carnage (uncountable)

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

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