carnage

Noun

carnage (usually uncountable, plural carnages)

1. (usually) Death and destruction.
   • There was carnage after the school play ended with 96 deaths.
   • Unleash the wolves / Carnage has no rules / Comparison, competition / We'll bury one and all, all2007, “Wolves”, in Robb Flynn (lyrics), The Blackening, performed by Machine Head, Track 7

   Synonyms:

   massacre, bloodbath

2. (usually) The corpses, gore, etc. that remain after a massacre.
3. (figuratively, usually) Any great loss by a team; a game in which one team wins overwhelmingly.
   • The game against Sri Lanka and Australia was carnage with Australia winning by 287 runs.
4. (figuratively, slang, usually) A heavy drinking binge and its aftermath.
   • The lads had recently returned from a wild summer on the party island of Ibiza, an increasingly popular hotspot for working-class British youth. But this was not a scene of drunken holiday carnage in tacky discos.2014, Simon Spence, Happy Mondays: Excess All Areas
   • Within three hours we'd drunk the place dry. Miraculously, we all made it back on the bus, but I've never seen a more bacchanalian scene of wanton debauchery than the ride back to the hotel. It was total carnage.2015, Adam Jones, Bomb: My Autobiography

   Synonyms:

   rampage

5. (figuratively, slang, usually) Any chaotic situation.
   • Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities, rusted out factories, scattered like tombstones across the across the landscape of our nation, an education system flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge, and the crime, and the gangs...2017 January 20, Donald Trump, The Inaugural Address