Definition of carnage

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< Carnac

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car·nage    (kärnj) KEY  

NOUN:

1. Massive slaughter, as in war; a massacre.
2. Corpses, especially of those killed in battle.

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ETYMOLOGY:
French, from Old French, from Old Italian carnaggio, from Medieval Latin carnticum, meat, from Latin car , carn-, flesh; see sker- ¹ in Indo-European roots

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