1. The shedding of blood resulting in murder
   "he avenged the bloodshed of his kinsmen"
   - gore 
2. Indiscriminate slaughter
   "the valley is no stranger to bloodshed and murder"
   - bloodbath, bloodletting, battue

Derived forms: bloodsheds

Type of: butchery, carnage, execution, mass murder, massacre, murder, slaughter, slaying

Encyclopedia: Bloodshed

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