bloodbath

Noun

Meaning

indiscriminate slaughter

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

bloodshed bloodletting battue gore holocaust blood butcher butchery decimation abattoir killing destruction murder assassination massacre
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Antonyms

renaissance amity amnesty life free construction
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Hypernyms

butchery massacre slaughter carnage mass murder

Phrases with the word

cause a bloodbath

Examples

Parlette spoke slowly and evenly. "I am trying to prevent a bloodbath. Is that clear enough for you? I'm trying to prevent a civil war that could kill half the people in this world." Larry Niven

Yesterday, with an inevitability born of the utterly false promise that the bloodbath in Iraq is yielding dividends, we were supposed to believe that the death of Zarqawi was a famous victory. Robert Fisk

Oh, goodie. Let the bloodbath commence. (Zarek) Sherrilyn Kenyon

If you put into one room everyone who considered themselves a Nietzschean, there would be a bloodbath. Ben Macintyre

You don't go through a bloodbath like this and then walk away from it. Geraldine Ferraro

a bloodbath took place when the leaders of the plot surrendered Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

blood-wit blood-wite bloodbank bloodberry bloodbird bloodborne