Affected by or filled with carnage; describing something marked by bloodshed, slaughter, or violent destruction.
From carnage, ultimately from Latin carnis 'flesh,' with the past participle suffix -ed; the root refers to the fleshly destruction of war.
The word carnage literally means 'flesh-age'—it's a medieval coinage describing how wars reduce human beings to mere meat, making it one of language's darkest metaphors.
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