What is "carnages"

Usage examples of "carnages".

It allows him to mingle with exterminations and carnages, but it does not permit him to die, because it wishes him to relate them.

They could not tell why the periodic famines—that had been striking every twenty years to wipe out the “surplus” population which pre-capitalist economies could not feed—now came to an end, as did the carnages of religious wars, nor why fear seemed to be lifting away from people’s voices and from the streets of growing cities, nor why an enormous exultation was suddenly sweeping the world.