Carnage vs Homicide - What's the difference?
carnage | homicide |
Death and destruction.
What remains after a massacre, e.g. the corpses or gore.
Any chaotic situation.
* 2014 , Simon Spence, Happy Mondays: Excess All Areas
(uncountable) The killing of one person by another, whether premeditated or unintentional.
(countable) A person who kills another.
(countable, US, police jargon) A victim of homicide; a person who has been unlawfully killed by someone else.
* 1996 , A J Holt, Watch Me [http://print.google.com/print?id=AeiWDMxtf70C&pg=PA146&lpg=PA146&sig=58bpIF6WRwzfzHU-U8U9ZrEbME0]:
* 2003 , Ellen Perry Berkeley, Keith's People (ISBN 1930859449), page 58:
* 2004 , Jon Talton, Dry Heat (ISBN 0312333854), page 40:
As a noun carnage
is death and destruction.As a verb homicide is
.carnage
English
Noun
(en-noun)- 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.
Synonyms
* bloodbath * massacreAnagrams
* ----homicide
English
Noun
(wikipedia homicide) (en noun)- “She was a hippie kid. How hard would you work a case like that?”
- “As hard as anyone else,” said Goddard. There was an irritated note in his voice. “She was a homicide'. She got what every ' homicide investigation gets.”
- We don't even know the woman was a homicide . Didn't they say it was possible they both jumped?
- The medical examiner was behind on autopsies and cranky, so we didn't even know if the old guy in the pool was a homicide .
