Synonyms for carnage

noun

carnage stresses the result of bloody and widespread killing and suggests the accumulation of the bodies of the slain; slaughter, as applied to people, suggests extensive and brutal killing, as in battle or by deliberate acts of wanton cruelty; massacre implies the indiscriminate and wholesale slaughter of those who are defenseless or helpless to resist; butchery adds implications of extreme cruelty and of such coldblooded heartlessness as one might display in the slaughtering of animals; pogrom refers to an organized, often officially sanctioned, massacre of a minority group, particularly of the Jews in eastern Europe