as in massacre
the killing of a large number of people
one side was so much better armed that the battle quickly turned into a bloodbath
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Recent Examples of bloodbath
Not like a bloodbath or anything.
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Lizz Schumer, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Naturally, the theft of the ghost shirt by the stooges in the employ of Roy Lee is accompanied by many deceased bodies — the first of the many bloodbaths in Americana, which has a distressingly expedient approach to on-screen carnage.
—Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2025
Season 1 of Gen V ended with a bloodbath on Godolkin's campus, prompted primarily by the school secretly experimenting on super-powered youths to create a virus lethal to supes.
—EW.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Tyler Loong turned out to be quite prophetic, because the Men’s singles draw was a bloodbath for the top seeds.
—Todd Boss, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
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Lizz Schumer, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Naturally, the theft of the ghost shirt by the stooges in the employ of Roy Lee is accompanied by many deceased bodies — the first of the many bloodbaths in Americana, which has a distressingly expedient approach to on-screen carnage.
—Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2025
Season 1 of Gen V ended with a bloodbath on Godolkin's campus, prompted primarily by the school secretly experimenting on super-powered youths to create a virus lethal to supes.
—EW.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Tyler Loong turned out to be quite prophetic, because the Men’s singles draw was a bloodbath for the top seeds.
—Todd Boss, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloodbath
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Scott Starzyk booted a 49-yard field goal to bring Arkansas within 28-13, but the Fighting Irish completed their first-half massacre with two more touchdowns to drain the energy from the home crowd.—
Tom Murphy,
Arkansas Online,
27 Sep. 2025
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Amazingly, there are photographs of the massacre of hundreds of civilians at the village of My Lai.—
Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
27 Sep. 2025
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Matt Jones and Christina Long discuss whats next for Arkansas football after the Notre Dame slaughter on Saturday.—
Christina Long,
Arkansas Online,
29 Sep. 2025
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The 1994 slaughter of 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda became the paradigmatic example, prosecuted at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and recognized by the UN Security Council.—
Faisal Kutty,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Bloodbath.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloodbath. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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