| NOUN | act | carnage, slaughter, massacre, mass murder, butchery | the savage and excessive killing of many people |
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| Sounds | kaa'rnihjh | |
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| Rhymes | abridge ... yardage: 133 rhymes with ihjh... | |
| Meaning | The savage and excessive killing of many people. | |
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| Synonyms | slaughter, massacre, mass murder, butchery | |
| Instances | Alamo | A siege and massacre at a mission in San Antonio in 1836 |
| Little Bighorn, Battle of Little Bighorn, Battle of the Little Bighorn, Custer's Last Stand | A battle in Montana near the Little Bighorn River between United States cavalry / cavalry under Custer and several groups of Native Americans (1876) | |
| Narrower | bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed, battue | indiscriminate slaughter |
| Broader | murder, slaying, execution | unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being |
| Spanish | carnaje, carnicería, masacre, matanza, mortandad | |
| Catalan | carnatge, carnisseria, massacre, matança | |
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