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bloodbath
[ bluhd-bath, -bahth ]
noun
- a ruthless slaughter of a great number of people; massacre.
- Informal. a period of disastrous loss or reversal:
A few mutual funds performed well in the general bloodbath of the stock market.
- a widespread dismissal or purge, as of employees.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of bloodbath1
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Example Sentences
When Arab Spring-style protests take shape in the capital's main plaza, Jamal orders up a "bloodbath."
Attention Democrats: Unless you start getting angry, the midterm elections are going to be a bloodbath.
Teen crime actually dropped dramatically during the years some social scientists were predicting a “bloodbath of violence.”
He produced and stars as Michael Alig in Clubland, a stage musical adaptation of Disco Bloodbath.
Indeed, his exit would be made easier if Alawites felt more assured that a bloodbath did not await them.
Gustavus Vasa was a young fellow there, who dexterously escaped this Bloodbath, and afterwards came to something.
Shallow programming dominates as long as the bloodbath proceeds.
Jake rumbled, "There's going to be a bloodbath there before it's over."
But that it will be achieved through progressive taxation rather than through a bloodbath is not a foregone conclusion.
This first European bloodbath provoked all of Albania's neighbours into an uncontrolled binge of invasions.
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