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[ bluhd-bath, -bahth ] / ˈblʌdˌbæθ, -ˌbɑθ / SEE SYNONYMS FOR bloodbath ON THESAURUS.COM
noun, plural blood·baths [bluhd-bathz, -bahthz, -baths, -bahths]. /ˈblʌdˌbæðz, -ˌbɑðz, -ˌbæθs, -ˌbɑθs/. a ruthless slaughter of a great number of people; massacre. Informal. a period of disastrous loss or reversal: A few mutual funds performed well in the general bloodbath of the stock market. a widespread dismissal or purge, as of employees. Origin of bloodbathFirst recorded in 1865–70; blood + bath1 Words nearby bloodbathblood alcohol concentration, blood-and-guts, blood and thunder, blood-aqueous barrier, blood bank, bloodbath, blood blister, blood-brain barrier, blood brother, blood capillary, blood cell Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for bloodbathAttention Democrats: Unless you start getting angry, the midterm elections are going to be a bloodbath. Democrats, You Better Get Angry or You’ll Lose Congress|Dean Obeidallah|April 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST Teen crime actually dropped dramatically during the years some social scientists were predicting a “bloodbath of violence.” Breaking: Trend Stories Are Bullsh*t|Bonnie Bertram|April 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST Indeed, his exit would be made easier if Alawites felt more assured that a bloodbath did not await them. Face the Assad Reality In Syria|Frank G. Wisner, Leslie H. Gelb|January 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST Who can say where the bloodbath, the spiraling destruction, the grim tornado that strews cadavers in its wake could end? What To Do About Syria’s Crisis?|Bernard-Henri Lévy|December 10, 2012|DAILY BEAST
So imagine an invasion, which cannot but evolve into a bloodbath like the 1982 invasion of Lebanon. Playing With Fire|Bernard Avishai|November 19, 2012|DAILY BEAST Gustavus Vasa was a young fellow there, who dexterously escaped this Bloodbath, and afterwards came to something. History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. III. (of XXI.)|Thomas Carlyle In that case the bloodbath would take place there instead of in Africa. Black Man's Burden|Dallas McCord Reynolds Jake rumbled, "There's going to be a bloodbath there before it's over." Black Man's Burden|Dallas McCord Reynolds Shallow programming dominates as long as the bloodbath proceeds. After the Rain|Sam Vaknin But that it will be achieved through progressive taxation rather than through a bloodbath is not a foregone conclusion. After the Rain|Sam Vaknin
British Dictionary definitions for bloodbath
nounindiscriminate slaughter; a massacre Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to bloodbathpurge, slaughter, carnage, war |