carnage

Meanings

1. Death and destruction.
2. The corpses, gore, etc. that remain after a massacre.
3. Any great loss by a team; a game in which one team wins overwhelmingly.
4. A heavy drinking binge and its aftermath.
5. Any chaotic situation.

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French carnage, from a Norman or Picard variant Old Northern French) of Old French charnage, from char (“flesh”), or from Vulgar Latin *carnaticum (“slaughter of animals”), itself from Latin carnem, accusative of caro (“flesh”). By surface analysis, Latin carn- + -age.