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
What’s most impressive is how On the Road turns a boilerplate genre scenario — and one that doesn’t skimp on a bloodbath at the end — into a movie that grows increasingly emotional as things get exponentially worse for its main characters.
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Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2025
Not like a bloodbath or anything.
—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
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Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2025
Not like a bloodbath or anything.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloodbath
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The massacre was instantly infamous — as much a source of horror as of horrified fascination by the public.—
Susan Young,
PEOPLE,
10 Oct. 2025
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The heinous, appalling and unjustifiable massacre of October 7 followed decades of violence.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
10 Oct. 2025
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This precludes it from accommodating thousands of visitors eager to witness simulated slaughter.—
Caity Weaver,
The Atlantic,
8 Oct. 2025
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On October 7, 2023, as a terrorist army invaded Israel intending to commit genocide against the Jewish people, many world leaders rightly condemned Hamas’ murder, rape, and slaughter of Israelis and foreign nationals.—
Ofir Akunis,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Oct. 2025
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“Bloodbath.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloodbath. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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