Definitions for carnages

carnages car·nage

Spelling: [kahr-nij]
IPA: /ˈkɑr nɪdʒ/

Carnages is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 307 anagrams from letters in carnages (aacegnrs).

Definitions for carnages

noun

  1. the slaughter of a great number of people, as in battle; butchery; massacre.
  2. Archaic. dead bodies, as of those slain in battle.

Origin of carnages

1590-1600; Middle French Italian carnaggio Medieval Latin carnāticum payment or offering in meat, equivalent to Latin carn- (stem of carō) flesh + -āticum -age

Examples for carnages

There was a tribute of carnage, nor were they long engaged in the tumult of battle.

Is it worse to let your family starve or profit off the carnage?

The carnage had been terrible, and the fields were strewn with the dead and dying.

When it comes to videos of the carnage that has cost at least 200,000 lives in Syria, few sources have been completely reliable.

There was battle there, and death and carnage and utter destruction.

Female members have been involved in the carnage for the past two years, but never in such an active role.

The raven, wolf, and eagle are the regular epic accompaniments of battle and carnage.

There is in man a similar temper, which is roused and stimulated by carnage.

Here's what we know so far about the man allegedly behind the carnage.

They logged every incident and released depressing day-by-day accounts of the carnage.

Word Value for carnages
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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