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carnage

Best crossword clue

"Mass slaughter"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈkɑː.nɪdʒ/Part of speech nounSorted aacegnrStarts with CEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the savage and excessive killing of many people

Word origin

Borrowed from Middle French carnage, from a Norman or Picard variant Old Northern French) of Old French charnage, from char (“flesh”), or from Vulgar Latin *carnaticum (“slaughter of animals”), itself from Latin carnem, accusative of caro (“flesh”). By surface analysis, Latin carn- + -age.

Used in a sentence

  • There was carnage after the school play ended with 96 deaths.
  • Unleash the wolves / Carnage has no rules / Comparison, competition / We'll bury one and all, all
  • Carnage consumes all we’ve ever loved / The innocent blistered by the flame / Trial by fire we burn in shame

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