carnage

Meaning

Noun

• Death and destruction.
• The corpses, gore, etc. that remain after a massacre.
• Any great loss by a team; a game in which one team wins overwhelmingly.
• Any chaotic situation.

Related

Similar words

• insurrectionism

Origin

• Borrowed from Middle French carnage , from a Norman or Picard variant Old Northern French) of Old French charnage, from char, or from Vulgar Latin *carnaticum ("slaughter of animals"), itself from Latin carnem, accusative of caro.