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# carnage

noun (carnage)

«carnage» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Carnage is the terrible killing of very many people or animals, as in a battle or a great disaster. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carnage/#m1)

### In the lessons

the horror of a battle or disaster in a story, when the ground is left covered with the dead

### Examples

- The battle left the field covered in carnage. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carnage/#x1)
- After the storm there was carnage on the rocks. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carnage/#x2)
- The island was silent after the carnage. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carnage/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «carnage» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carnage/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«carnage» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/carnage.html) on Mova free.