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bloodlust

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bloodlust \blood"lust\ n. a desire for bloodshed.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A desire for extreme violence and carnage, often aroused in the heat of battle and leading to uncontrolled slaughter and torture. 2 The desire for bloodshed.

Usage examples of bloodlust.

The ensuing war destroyed the wormhole through which all arrived, as well as technological civilization, and in the centuries since the Teotl have cultivated Azteca bloodlust and prowess.

Behind Praxtin-Tar was Crinion, waving and shouting, whipping up the bloodlust of his men.

I have fed on bloodlust, greed, and brutality since Otaria was wild and the Mer empire was just another school of intelligent fish.

Likewise true, north and east of them laired the Huns, horsemen, stockbreeders, akin to trolls in their ugliness, filth, and bloodlust.

The invaders seemed impervious to the cold of the high peaks and the rain that fell as the year aged, as if they were some mindless gestalt unlimited by physical considerations or any kind of sentiment save bloodlust.

His bloodlust shatters all the conventional wisdom surrounding the motives and mechanics of how serial killers operate.

Up on the dunes, the kreels and cavalry were locked in combat, clashing claws and swords and screaming in bloodlust.

I surmised, already hearing the specs-rich vocabulary that Carnage used come tumbling out over the tannoy, the killing ring drenched in focused white light, the roaring, surging crowd in the darkened seating, the smell of sweat and bloodlust.

The muscles quivered with the fierce, channeled bloodlust of King-Carus.

The bloodlust in his eyes proclaimed that Arilyn was no longer a prize to be won, but an enemy who must die.

The druid fought to regain control of himself, to quell the bloodlust overtaking his soul.

But they had already broken into at least one taverna, and the unwatered wine in the flasks they were carrying was speedily drowning what reason bloodlust had left them.

The bloodlust between the rival factions in the Balkans is not worth the life of one German or one Russian.

Grimm's eyes were incandescent in the dun light, and Quinn knew he was deep into the bloodlust that accompanied Berserkergang.

The cries echoed into the surrounding wood and resounded in the empty hills `round about: loud, bellowing, bloodlusting cries.