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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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.
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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
Tyler Loong turned out to be quite prophetic, because the Men’s singles draw was a bloodbath for the top seeds.
—Todd Boss, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Islam’s father, Abdur Rob, suffered a minor heart attack after rushing to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell and being told that his son had not survived the 6:30 p.m. bloodbath.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 31 July 2025
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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
Tyler Loong turned out to be quite prophetic, because the Men’s singles draw was a bloodbath for the top seeds.
—Todd Boss, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Islam’s father, Abdur Rob, suffered a minor heart attack after rushing to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell and being told that his son had not survived the 6:30 p.m. bloodbath.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 31 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloodbath
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The shooting at Evergreen High is at least the seventh school shooting in Colorado since the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School that killed 13 students and one teacher.—
Katie Langford,
Boston Herald,
13 Sep. 2025
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Sheriff Tony later condemned his deputies’ failures, including their inaction on removing Nathan’s firearms or seeking a court order under Florida’s red flag law, passed after the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High massacre.—
Milena Malaver,
Miami Herald,
12 Sep. 2025
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Warned by ornithologists that killing an insectivorous bird that also ate grain seeds would lead to a surge in locusts and caterpillars, Mao dismissed such arguments and urged mass slaughter.—
Scott Montgomery,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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The slaughter of the innocents that follows the birth of Jesus in the Book of Matthew is depicted by limp infants that Gaudí modelled on casts of actual stillborn babies.—
D. T. Max,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Bloodbath.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloodbath. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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