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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Season 2 of The Last of Us was a bloodbath, with Ellie slaughtering several characters before seeing Jesse shot dead in the finale.
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Randall Colburn, EW.com, 4 June 2025
Each issue centers around the bonds that women form with each other, and in this case, forged vis-à-vis a carnal and violent bloodbath.
—Tiffany Leigh, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025
An early introduction to Abby and friends With the pivot away from Joel in the episode’s opener comes a much earlier introduction to Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) and her surviving Firefly cohorts in the immediate aftermath of the bloodbath in Salt Lake City.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 5 May 2025
Audiences hoping for a gonzo bloodbath will be disappointed that Finnegan keeps his morality murky.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2025
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Randall Colburn, EW.com, 4 June 2025
Each issue centers around the bonds that women form with each other, and in this case, forged vis-à-vis a carnal and violent bloodbath.
—Tiffany Leigh, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025
An early introduction to Abby and friends With the pivot away from Joel in the episode’s opener comes a much earlier introduction to Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) and her surviving Firefly cohorts in the immediate aftermath of the bloodbath in Salt Lake City.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 5 May 2025
Audiences hoping for a gonzo bloodbath will be disappointed that Finnegan keeps his morality murky.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloodbath
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Nearly 600 days after he was abducted by Hamas during the October 7 massacre, Edan Alexander returned home to New Jersey on Thursday to a deeply emotional homecoming.—
Efrat Lachter , Nate Foy , Julia Johnson,
FOXNews.com,
19 June 2025
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The church's pastor, Clementa Pinckney, was one of the people killed in the massacre.—
Mark Strassmann,
CBS News,
17 June 2025
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Third, in the face of such facts, a deportation of Afghans back to Afghanistan would be nothing short of a slaughter.—
David Peduto,
Baltimore Sun,
11 June 2025
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His cases there included the successful prosecution — in a 25-month trial — of a Croatian general who ordered the slaughter of Muslim noncombatants.—
Dan Sullivan,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 May 2025
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“Bloodbath.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloodbath. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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