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bloodshed

Noun

Meaning

The shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; the act of shedding human blood, or taking life, as in war, riot, or murder.

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Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed. Mao Zedong

I am ready to sacrifice everything in completing the unfinished agenda of our noble jihad...until there is no bloodshed in Afghanistan and Islam becomes a way of life for our people. Mohammed Omar

God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed. Luis Buñuel

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo daVinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce The cuckoo clock. Orson Welles

I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed. Eduard Shevardnadze

The Führer confirms my impressions of yesterday. He would like an understanding with Great Britain. He knows that war with the British will be hard and bloody, and knows also that people everywhere today are averse to bloodshed. Franz Halder

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