carnage

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

carnage
    n 1: the savage and excessive killing of many people [syn:
         {slaughter}, {massacre}, {mass murder}, {carnage},
         {butchery}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Carnage \Car"nage\, n. [F. carnage, LL. carnaticum tribute of
   animals, flesh of animals, fr. L. caro, carnis, flesh. See
   {Carnal}.]
   1. Flesh of slain animals or men.
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            A miltitude of dogs came to feast on the carnage.
                                                  --Macaulay.
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   2. Great destruction of life, as in battle; bloodshed;
      slaughter; massacre; murder; havoc.
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            The more fearful carnage of the Bloody Circuit.
                                                  --Macaulay.
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