Vocabulary Word
Word: carnage
Definition: destruction of life; slaughter; killing of large numbers of people or animals
Definition: destruction of life; slaughter; killing of large numbers of people or animals
Sentences Containing 'carnage'
To Mr. Lorry, the Doctor communicated under an injunction of secrecy on which he had no need to dwell, that the crowd had taken him through a scene of carnage to the prison of La Force.
For numbers and for carnage it was an Austerlitz or Dresden.
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