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
Not like a bloodbath or anything.
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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
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
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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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloodbath
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However, instead of caving to the demands of the USFF's powers-that-be, Cam refuses to sacrifice his soul by signing the contract and proceeds to unleash his strength on everyone involved in the demonic proceedings in an ultra-violent massacre.—
Megan McCluskey,
Time,
19 Sep. 2025
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Anonymous tips forward to the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center reported threatening posts from a Discord profile that referenced plans for a future massacre and contained pictures of guns.—
Mia Cathell,
The Washington Examiner,
18 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 21 Sep. 2025.
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