Synonyms of the word

carnage

• n. Death and destruction.
• n. What remains after a massacre, e.g. the corpses or gore.
• n. (figuratively, slang) Any chaotic situation.

butchery

• n. The cruel, ruthless killings of humans, as at a slaughterhouse.
• n. (rare) An abattoir, a slaughterhouse.
• n. The butchering of meat.
• n. A disastrous effort, an atrocious failure.
• n. A meat market.
• n. (slang) The stereotypical behaviors and accoutrements of being a butch lesbian.

execution

• n. The act, manner or style of executing (actions, maneuvers, performances).
• n. The state of being executed (accomplished).
• n. The act of putting to death or being put to death as a penalty, or actions so associated.
• n. (law) The carrying into effect of a court judgment, or of a will.
• n. (law) The formal process by which a contract is made valid and put into binding effect.
• n. (computing) The carrying out of an instruction, program or program segment by a computer.

massacre

• n. The killing of a considerable number (usually limited to people) where little or no resistance can be…
• n. (obsolete) Murder.
• n. (figuratively) Any overwhelming defeat, as in a game or sport.
• v. (transitive) To kill in considerable numbers where little or no resistance can be made, with indiscriminate…
• v. (figuratively) To win so decisively it is in the manner of so slaughtering one's opponent.
• v. (figuratively) To give a performance so poorly it is in the manner of so slaughtering the musical piece,…

murder

• n. (countable) An act of deliberate killing of another being, especially a human.
• n. (uncountable) The crime of deliberate killing of another human.
• n. (uncountable, law, in jurisdictions which use the felony murder rule) The commission of an act which abets…
• n. (uncountable, used as a predicative noun) Something terrible to endure.
• n. (countable, collective) A group of crows; the collective noun for crows.
• v. To deliberately kill (a person or persons).
• v. (transitive, sports, figuratively, colloquial) To defeat decisively.
• v. To botch or mangle.
• v. (figuratively, colloquial) To kick someone's ass or chew someone out (used to express one’s anger at somebody).
• v. (figuratively, colloquial, Britain) to devour, ravish.

slaughter

• n. (uncountable) The killing of animals, generally for food; ritual slaughter (kosher and halal).
• n. A massacre; the killing of a large number of people.
• n. A rout or decisive defeat.
• v. (transitive) To butcher animals, generally for food.
• v. (transitive) To massacre people in large numbers.
• v. (transitive) To kill in a particularly brutal manner.

slaying

• n. Killing, especially murder of a human.
• v. present participle of slay.