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All carnage synonyms

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noun carnage

  • massacre — the unnecessary, indiscriminate killing of a large number of human beings or animals, as in barbarous warfare or persecution or for revenge or plunder.
  • warfare — the process of military struggle between two nations or groups of nations; war.
  • havoc — great destruction or devastation; ruinous damage.
  • killing — the act of killing, especially game: The hounds moved in for the kill.
  • slaughterFrank, 1908–2001, U.S. novelist and physician.
  • crime — A crime is an illegal action or activity for which a person can be punished by law.
  • butchery — You can refer to the cruel killing of a lot of people as butchery when you want to express your horror and disgust at this.
  • bloodshed — Bloodshed is violence in which people are killed or wounded.
  • manslaughter — Law. the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought.
  • wasting — not used or in use: waste energy; waste talents.
  • offing — the state or fact of being off.
  • hecatomb — (in ancient Greece and Rome) a public sacrifice of 100 oxen to the gods.
  • homicide — the killing of one human being by another.
  • murder — Law. the killing of another human being under conditions specifically covered in law. In the U.S., special statutory definitions include murder committed with malice aforethought, characterized by deliberation or premeditation or occurring during the commission of another serious crime, as robbery or arson (first-degree murder) and murder by intent but without deliberation or premeditation (second-degree murder)
  • liquidation — the process of realizing upon assets and of discharging liabilities in concluding the affairs of a business, estate, etc.
  • rapine — the violent seizure and carrying off of another's property; plunder.
  • blood — Blood is the red liquid that flows inside your body, which you can see if you cut yourself.
  • blitz — If a city or building is blitzed during a war, it is attacked by bombs dropped by enemy aircraft.
  • holocaust — a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire.
  • annihilation — the act of annihilating
  • shambles — a shambling gait.
  • gore — a city in W Ethiopia.
  • blood and guts — dealing with or depicting war or violence, especially in a lurid manner: a blood-and-guts movie.
  • blood bath — a killing of many people; massacre
  • bloodbath — If you describe an event as a bloodbath, you are emphasizing that a lot of people were killed very violently.
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