Plural of carnage; multiple instances of widespread violence, slaughter, or the killing of many people.
Plural form of carnage, from Old French and Medieval Latin carnis 'flesh'; the term was applied to battlefields literally strewn with human remains.
Historians use the word 'carnage' to describe specific battles—the Carnage of Glencoe is Scotland's most infamous, showing how memory attaches to words for violence.
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