Carnage vs Sanguinary - What's the difference?
carnage | sanguinary |
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
(label) Attended with bloodshed.
* 1625 , , "Unity in Religion"
* 1887 , :
(label) Eager to shed blood; bloodthirsty.
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* 1877 , Samuel Green, The Life of Mahomet: Founder of the Religion of Islamism and of the Empire of the Saracens with Notices of the History of Islamism and of Arabia ,
(label) Consisting of, covered with, or similar in appearance to blood.
* 1913 , :
A bloodthirsty person.
The plant yarrow, or herba sanguinaria .
As nouns the difference between carnage and sanguinary
is that carnage is death and destruction while sanguinary is a bloodthirsty person.As an adjective sanguinary is
attended with bloodshed.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
* ----sanguinary
English
Adjective
(en adjective)(Google preview):
- We may not propagate religion by wars, or by sanguinary persecutions to force consciences.
- " every one of which took its rise from some noble family that succeeded in grasping the purple after a sanguinary struggle."
- Passion makes us brutal and sanguinary .
p. 126:
- "The defence set up for Mahomet is equally availing for every sanguinary and revengeful tyrant; "
- Here is the premeditation, the thrill, the strain of accumulating victory or disaster—and no smashed nor sanguinary bodies , that we who are old enough to remember a real modern war know to be the reality of belligerence.