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bloodbath

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noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Both men know the only way ahead to avoid a national racial bloodbath is to get together and start talking again. ▪ Clark was named by police as they launched a manhunt following the bloodbath in the market town of Melksham, ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. indiscriminate killing or slaughter, a massacre.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. indiscriminate slaughter [syn: bloodletting , bloodshed , battue ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
bloodbath \blood"bath`\ n. Indiscriminate slaughter; the killing of multiple persons. Syn: bloodletting, bloodshed, battue. [fig.] Substantial losses by many people, as in a mass termination of employment or widespread financial loss; as, the sudden market ...

Usage examples of bloodbath.

And while he wandered, blind and stumbling, mewling, the Akkadian general ordered a bloodbath.

Just today you had an article about a car accident on the Beltway where five people got killed, but you never said it was a bloodbath.

Like the initiate to Mithraism the human race has need, perhaps, of a periodical bloodbath and descent into the grave.

The bloodbath in Berlin was instigated by a group that included jokers, aces, and nats, and we would do well to remember that and remind the world of it forcefully.

Green had been committed here around the time of Election Day, plagued by psychological troubles - posttraumatic stress from the Pentagon Towers bloodbath.

The bloodbath would make headlines worldwide, putting a minor dent in our tourist trade.

The recent bloodbath among online content peddlers and digital media proselytisers can be traced to two deadly sins.

But the Emperor had insisted this would be a totally secure operation, which meant only Poyndex and his own personal IS staff were even aware of the bloodbath to come.

Yet a bloodbath of unusual proportions has taken place in the last few months.

The Miraculous Conversion By: Sam Vaknin hyperlink The recent bloodbath among online content peddlers and digital media proselytisers can be traced to two deadly sins.

Some analysts blame the recent bloodbath on a dearth of good content and wrong pricing.

When it turned out to be true, the sheriff got more than an earful from the governor and there was a bloodbath in the papers.

It was always possible that a bloodbath on Medusa would be grist for the Liberal/Progressive mill and wake such revulsion in Parliament as to enable the anti-annexationists to finally get Manticore entirely off the planet.

In the Book of Kings we have those utterly monstrous bloodbaths accomplished in the name, of course, of Yahweh by Elijah and Elisha.

This is what they produced: "reeducation" camps, political prisoners, and gruesome bloodbaths as Communists swept through Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.