Associations to the word «Carnage»

Wiktionary

CARNAGE, noun. Death and destruction.
CARNAGE, noun. What remains after a massacre, e.g. the corpses or gore.
CARNAGE, noun. (figurative) (slang) Any chaotic situation.

Dictionary definition

CARNAGE, noun. The savage and excessive killing of many people.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats