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
This year's trade deadline was an absolute bloodbath, as the Twins cut ties with 11 players in two days.
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Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
After going 19 consecutive drives without a touchdown and trailing 28-3, Browniong scored on three consecutive drives in the fourth quarter to bring temporary drama to an otherwise boring bloodbath.
—Paul Dehner Jr, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
After the bloodbath on the Godolkin campus in the season 2 finale, Andre, Marie (Jaz Sinclair), Jordan (played by both London Thor and Derek Luh), and Emma (Lizze Broadway) were carted off to Elmira Adult Rehabilitation Center, which is essentially a supe prison.
—Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Sep. 2025
There is one hint of the bloodbath to come, as the film opens in Osaka, where a yakuza boss insists that three of his men chop off a digit of their hands in order to prove their loyalty.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 8 Sep. 2025
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Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
After going 19 consecutive drives without a touchdown and trailing 28-3, Browniong scored on three consecutive drives in the fourth quarter to bring temporary drama to an otherwise boring bloodbath.
—Paul Dehner Jr, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
After the bloodbath on the Godolkin campus in the season 2 finale, Andre, Marie (Jaz Sinclair), Jordan (played by both London Thor and Derek Luh), and Emma (Lizze Broadway) were carted off to Elmira Adult Rehabilitation Center, which is essentially a supe prison.
—Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Sep. 2025
There is one hint of the bloodbath to come, as the film opens in Osaka, where a yakuza boss insists that three of his men chop off a digit of their hands in order to prove their loyalty.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 8 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloodbath
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The horrifying reports of the massacre of hundreds of Sudanese civilians after the Darfur city of El Fasher was captured by the rebel Rapid Support Forces (RSF) last week were the latest chapter in a brutal conflict that has killed more than 150,000 people over the past two and a half years.—
Ivana Kottasová,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
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The first of the previous massacres in Darfur occurred in the town of El Geneina, in April, 2023; fifteen thousand unarmed civilians were killed.—
Nicolas Niarchos,
New Yorker,
7 Nov. 2025
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The horses would be prohibited from being sold for slaughter or for carriage business elsewhere.—
Brie Stimson,
FOXNews.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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Such was slaughter that blood could be seen in sand next to piles of bodies in satellite images from space, according to the Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale School of Public Health.—
Abigail Williams,
NBC news,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Bloodbath.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloodbath. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.
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