Meaning

Death and destruction..

Definitions by Sense

1. Death and destruction.
2. The corpses, gore, etc. that remain after a massacre.
3. (figurative, sports) Any great loss by a team; a game in which one team wins overwhelmingly.
4. (figurative, slang) A heavy drinking binge and its aftermath.
5. (figurative, slang) Any chaotic situation.

Example Sentences

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

The game against Sri Lanka and Australia was carnage with Australia winning by 287 runs.

The lads had recently returned from a wild summer on the party island of Ibiza, an increasingly popular hotspot for working-class British youth. But this was not a scene of drunken holiday carnage in tacky discos.

Within three hours we'd drunk the place dry. Miraculously, we all made it back on the bus, but I've never seen a more bacchanalian scene of wanton debauchery than the ride back to the hotel. It was total carnage.

Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities, rusted out factories, scattered like tombstones across the across the landscape of our nation, an education system flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge, and the crime, and the gangs, and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential. This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.

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• carnages

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