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
Software rallied after last month’s bloodbath.
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Sarah Min, CNBC, 6 Mar. 2026
This could be a similar bloodbath.
—Brian Welk, IndieWire, 27 Feb. 2026
The result has been a bloodbath in the state of Sinaloa, with thousands killed, thousands more missing and the violence reaching such heights that the Mexican government looks hopeless, if not hapless.
—Daniel Depetris, Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2026
Every Saturday, the young Scott and Khan would log on and spend hours sucked into this saga of teen bloodbath.
—Lydia Wei, Pitchfork, 20 Feb. 2026
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Sarah Min, CNBC, 6 Mar. 2026
This could be a similar bloodbath.
—Brian Welk, IndieWire, 27 Feb. 2026
The result has been a bloodbath in the state of Sinaloa, with thousands killed, thousands more missing and the violence reaching such heights that the Mexican government looks hopeless, if not hapless.
—Daniel Depetris, Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2026
Every Saturday, the young Scott and Khan would log on and spend hours sucked into this saga of teen bloodbath.
—Lydia Wei, Pitchfork, 20 Feb. 2026
See All Example Sentences for bloodbath
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloodbath
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Next door in Syria, massacres of Alawite minorities took place last year in the wake of the Bashar al-Assad’s ouster — killings allegedly committed by forces aligned with the new government.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
19 Mar. 2026
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The images taken from space have provided evidence for investigations into widespread destruction, population movements, and even massacres, especially in places that are remote or inaccessible due to fighting on the ground.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
19 Mar. 2026
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Now after four years of ongoing horrors in Ukraine, and more than two years of watching slaughter and suffering in Gaza, the latest war filling our feeds is just another numbing form of content, a digital arena in which competing forces try to assert conflicting viewpoints.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
11 Mar. 2026
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There’s enough poetic irony there to land the billionaire slaughter in the middle of the list.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
10 Mar. 2026
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“Bloodbath.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloodbath. Accessed 24 Mar. 2026.
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