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Definition

the savage and excessive killing of many people

or:

corpses and gore resulting from violent death

more carnage due to the ancient blood feud

Jove drew Hector away from the darts and dust, with the carnage and din of battle;
Homer -- The Iliad
Rome was never sated of carnage and conquest.
Alexander Hamilton -- Federalist Papers
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.
Lois Lowry -- The Giver

carnage = corpses and gore resulting from violent death (figuratively)

There was no escape from the carnage that surrounded him.
Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
Climactic carnage, by poison and by steel-!
Tom Stoppard -- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Has any act of selfishness ever equaled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism?
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
Perhaps the simplest way to reduce future carnage would be to ban bottled oxygen except for emergency medical use.
Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air
We passed a sign that said: REDUCE ROAD CARNAGE-DRIVE SAFELY.
Richard Preston -- The Hot Zone
It has been a terrible carnage, we know.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
I watched as the worlds of blacks and whites smashed together in newsrooms and threw off chunks of human carnage that landed at my feet.
James McBride -- The Color of Water
Gospodin President, this carnage must stop!
Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
All around them was carnage.
Rick Riordan -- The Lost Hero
I looked back at the scene of carnage.
Robert Penn Warren -- All the King's Men
The lid was decorated even more intricately than the sides-with scenes of carnage and power.
Rick Riordan -- The Battle of the Labyrinth
Although the carnage was far worse in Dresden, a larger proportion of Plauen's buildings was destroyed.
Eric Schlosser -- Fast Food Nation
The allies turned and ran up and out of the small valley, away from the carnage that was taking place among their fallen comrades.
James A. Owen -- Here, There be Dragons
We slew everyone aboard both boarding ships and opened their hatches and sent them down to Rebma where Random would be amused by the carnage.
Roger Zelazny -- Nine Princes in Amber
The place smells to him of carnage.
Anthony Doerr -- All the Light We Cannot See
C#96 CHAPTER 96 Mal'akh stood in his hallway and surveyed the carnage around him.
Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol

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