Difference between Carnage and Butchery

What is the difference between Carnage and Butchery?

Carnage as a noun is death and destruction. while Butchery as a noun is the cruel, ruthless killings of humans, as at a slaughterhouse.

Carnage

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Death and destruction. What remains after a massacre, e. g. the corpses or gore.

Example sentence: We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.

Butchery

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The cruel, ruthless killings of humans, as at a slaughterhouse.An abattoir, a slaughterhouse.The butchering of meat.A disastrous effort, an atrocious failure.The stereotypical behaviors and accouterments of being a butch lesbian.

We hope you now know whether to use Carnage or Butchery in your sentence.

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