carnage

matanza, carnicería

Muerte violenta de muchas personas o animales, a menudo acompañada de una gran destrucción.

En inglés sencillo: The violent killing of many people or animals, often with great destruction.

• The attack caused terrible carnage.
• Doctors struggled to help the victims of the carnage.
• The film shows the carnage of war.

Sinónimos: slaughter, massacre

Expresiones frecuentes: terrible carnage, cause carnage, scene of carnage

caos

Situación en la que todo está confuso, abarrotado o fuera de control.

En inglés sencillo: A situation in which everything is confused, crowded, or out of control.

• The kitchen was absolute carnage.
• A broken traffic light caused carnage at the junction.
• There was carnage when the shop opened its sale.

Sinónimos: chaos, mayhem

Antónimos: order

Expresiones frecuentes: absolute carnage, traffic carnage, cause carnage

restos de la matanza

Los cadáveres y la sangre que quedan tras la muerte violenta de muchas personas o animales.

En inglés sencillo: The dead bodies and blood left after many people or animals have been violently killed.

• Bodies lay amid the carnage.
• The soldiers looked away from the carnage on the ground.
• Workers spent days clearing the carnage from the battlefield.

Expresiones frecuentes: survey the carnage, clear the carnage, amid the carnage

borrachera

Un período de consumo excesivo de alcohol y el desorden o malestar que viene después.

En inglés sencillo: A period of very heavy drinking and the mess or sickness that follows.

• Friday night was pure carnage at the pub.
• He slept all day after the drunken carnage.
• Empty bottles were all that remained of the weekend carnage.

Sinónimos: binge, bender

Expresiones frecuentes: weekend carnage, drunken carnage, night of carnage