bloodbath
noun
blood·bath
ˈbləd-ˌbath 
-ˌbäth
1
: a great slaughter
2
a
: a notably fierce, violent, or destructive contest or struggle
the campaign has become a bloodbath
b
: a major economic disaster
a market bloodbath
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Examples of bloodbath in a Sentence
Thousands of people were murdered in the bloodbath.
one side was so much better armed that the battle quickly turned into a bloodbath
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The British, with an ancestral aversion to attritional campaigns on the continent and memories of the bloodbaths at Passchendaele and the Somme fresh in their hearts, were more cautious.
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The Editors, National Review, 6 June 2024
The troops defending Omaha Beach were particularly well-organised and disciplined, and the six-mile stretch of coast soon became a bloodbath.
—The Week Uk, theweek, 6 June 2024
And if the bloodbath and chaos of what befell Lauren isn’t enough to do it, surely Miles’s reaction when Jo and Simone tell him about his wife will really burn it on her brain.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 10 May 2024
Their last attempt—a winter offensive in the south of the Donetsk region—ended in a bloodbath for the Russian side.
—Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 3 Oct. 2023
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The Editors, National Review, 6 June 2024
The troops defending Omaha Beach were particularly well-organised and disciplined, and the six-mile stretch of coast soon became a bloodbath.
—The Week Uk, theweek, 6 June 2024
And if the bloodbath and chaos of what befell Lauren isn’t enough to do it, surely Miles’s reaction when Jo and Simone tell him about his wife will really burn it on her brain.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 10 May 2024
Their last attempt—a winter offensive in the south of the Donetsk region—ended in a bloodbath for the Russian side.
—Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 3 Oct. 2023
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“Bloodbath.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bloodbath. Accessed 17 Jun. 2024.
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