Hypertext Webster Gateway: "carnage"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
A miltitude of dogs came to feast on the carnage.
--Macaulay.
2. Great destruction of life, as in battle; bloodshed;
slaughter; massacre; murder; havoc.
The more fearful carnage of the Bloody Circuit.
--Macaulay.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
carnage
n : the savage and excessive killing of people [syn: {slaughter},
{butchery}]
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