The Only Use of
carnage
in
The Giver
- The colors of the carnage were grotesquely bright: the crimson wetness on the rough and dusty fabric, the ripped shreds of grass, startlingly green, in the boy's yellow hair.
p. 119..2carnage = corpses and gore resulting from violent death (figuratively)
Definition:
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(carnage) the savage and excessive killing of many people
or:
corpses and gore resulting from violent death