Synonyms for carnage
ˈkɑr nɪdʒcar·nage

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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

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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

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1. carnage

   Synonyms:
   massacre, slaughter, bloodshed, butchery

   Antonyms:
   ransom, deliverance, quarter

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms: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

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1. carnagenoun

   Synonyms:
   slaughter, butchery, massacre, murder, bloodshed, havoc

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1. List of paraphrases for "carnage":

   massacre, butchery, bloodbath, slaughter, bloodshed, mayhem, killing, rampage, shambles

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1. Jen Psaki:

   Just as you heard him say on Jan. 6 of last year, I would expect that President Biden will lay out the significance of what happened at the Capitol, and the singular responsibility President Trump has for the chaos and carnage that we saw, he will forcibly push back on the lies spread by the former president – in an attempt to mislead the American people, and his own supporters, as well as distract from his role in what happened – so, he will, of course, speak to the moment, to the importance in history of the peaceful transfer of power, and of what we need to do to protect our own democracy and be forward-looking.

2. Jeff Bauman:

   I looked down and saw my legs, and it was pure carnage, i could see my bone.

3. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:

   This flotilla represents nothing except a fake, artificial demonstration aimed at helping the terrorist organization -- Hamas and ignores all the carnage in our region.

4. President Biden:

   It appears he’s not going to do that, he’s paying a very heavy price for failing to do it, but he is inflicting incredible, incredible carnage on the civilians of Ukraine, bombing nurseries, hospitals, children’s homes – it’s sick what he’s doing.

5. Darrell Steinberg:

   The scourge of gun violence continues to be a crisis in our country, and we must resolve to bring an end to this carnage.