Antonyms for carnage
ˈkɑr nɪdʒcar·nage

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:2.5 / 2 votes

1. carnagenoun

   Synonyms:
   bloodbath, massacre

2. carnagenoun

   Death and destruction.

   Synonyms:
   massacre, bloodbath

3. carnagenoun

   What remains after a massacre, e. g. the corpses or gore.

   Synonyms:
   bloodbath, massacre

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. carnage

   A massacre is the indiscriminate killing in numbers of the unresisting or defenseless; butchery is the killing of men rudely and ruthlessly as cattle are killed in the shambles. Havoc may not be so complete as massacre, nor so coldly brutal as butchery, but is more widely spread and furious; it is destruction let loose, and may be applied to organizations, interests, etc., as well as to human life; "as for Saul, he made havoc of the church," Acts viii, 3. Carnage (Latin caro, carnis, flesh) refers to widely scattered or heaped up corpses of the slain; slaughter is similar in meaning, but refers more to the process, as carnage does to the result; these two words only of the group may be used of great destruction of life in open and honorable battle, as when we say the enemy was repulsed with great slaughter, or the carnage was terrible.

   Synonyms:
   butchery, havoc, massacre, slaughter

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. carnage

   Antonyms:
   ransom, deliverance, quarter

   Synonyms:
   massacre, slaughter, bloodshed, butchery

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1. • Murder

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:3.4 / 5 votes

1. slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butcherynoun

   the savage and excessive killing of many people

   Synonyms:
   trouncing, thrashing, abattoir, debacle, walloping, mass murder, drubbing, butchery, whipping, butchering, slaughterhouse, shambles, massacre, slaughter

How to use carnage in a sentence?

1. France Adel Kermiche:

   You get a knife, go to a church, spread carnage, boom. You cut off two or three heads and you're done.

2. Republican State Representative David McSweeney:

   The taxpayers of this state are getting killed and this bill continues the carnage.

3. Raoul Jardine:

   I got out of my car and couldn't believe what I was seeing, it was carnage.

4. Pam Ramsden:

   Although the news media blurred the events, it was easy to find them and watch them in graphic detail, so while there was an effort to protect the public from that, it wouldn't be useful because the people who are traumatizing themselves would be the very people who would search online to watch the footage of the carnage.

5. Joe Biden:

   I do not accept a world where we can not stand up and say' no more' to the voices that offer empty words in the aftermath of tragedy, then oppose change and fuel this cycle of carnage, together, we can defeat the NRA and end this epidemic.

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