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Definition
the savage and excessive killing of many peopleor:
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
- 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
carnage = corpses and gore resulting from violent death (figuratively)