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usually uncountable, plural carnages
Death and destruction. quotations examples
Carnage consumes all we’ve ever loved / The innocent blistered by the flame / Trial by fire we burn in shame
2019, Fit for an Autopsy (lyrics and music), “The Sea of Tragic Beasts”
The corpses, gore, etc. that remain after a massacre. examples
(figurative, sports) Any great loss by a team; a game in which one team wins overwhelmingly. examples
(figurative, slang) A heavy drinking binge and its aftermath. quotations
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.
2014, Simon Spence, Happy Mondays: Excess All Areas
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.
2015, Adam Jones, Bomb: My Autobiography
(figurative, slang) Any chaotic situation. quotations
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.
2017 January 20, Donald Trump, The Inaugural Address