bloodthirsty

[ bluhd-thur-stee ]

/ ˈblʌdˌθɜr sti /

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adjective

eager to shed blood; murderous: to capture a bloodthirsty criminal.

enjoying or encouraging bloodshed or violence, especially as a spectator or clamorous partisan: the bloodthirsty urgings of the fight fans.

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1 homicidal, savage, brutal, bloody; merciless, pitiless.

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Origin of bloodthirsty

First recorded in 1525–35; blood + thirsty

OTHER WORDS FROM bloodthirsty

blood·thirst·i·ly, adverbblood·thirst·i·ness, noun

Words nearby bloodthirsty

bloodstream, blood substitute, bloodsucker, blood sugar, blood test, bloodthirsty, blood transfusion, blood type, blood typing, blood vessel, blood vessels

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How to use bloodthirsty in a sentence

Vampire bats may be bloodthirsty, but that doesn’t mean they can’t share a drink with friends.
Bloodthirsty vampire bats like to drink with friends over strangers|Jonathan Lambert|September 23, 2021|Science News
Biting a new wound can take 10 to 40 minutes, Carter says, so sharing with a friend could save these bloodthirsty bats time and energy.
Bloodthirsty vampire bats like to drink with friends over strangers|Jonathan Lambert|September 23, 2021|Science News
The mosquito population doesn’t shrink or grow less bloodthirsty, so this approach might not appeal to Floridians anyway.
The U.S.’s first open-air genetically modified mosquitoes have taken flight|Susan Milius|May 14, 2021|Science News
Human beings, it seems, are a peculiarly bloodthirsty species.
Timeless meditations on Earth’s fragility, and the damage humans do|Balaji Ravichandran|May 14, 2021|Washington Post

We are never going to give up our love for democracy, nor its vitality, nor are we going to let this country be dominated by the insurrectionists who came to this place to do nothing but act in a bloodthirsty manner.
Ocasio-Cortez, other Democrats recount on House floor what they experienced during Capitol siege|Amy B Wang, Colby Itkowitz|February 5, 2021|Washington Post
Bloodthirsty calls for revenge have filled Facebook and Twitter.
Two Days After School Attack, Pakistan Court Lets Terrorists Walk Free|Chris Allbritton|December 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
All those bloodthirsty tweets and arcane exhortations and now we find out you were an advertising executive—an ad exec!
The Scared Widdle Kitty of ISIS|Jacob Siegel|December 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The Habsburg army, however, Watson contends, were exceptionally bloodthirsty.
How WWI Produced the Holocaust|J.P. O’Malley|November 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
His bloodthirsty fighters might be Baghdad's best hope of stopping the Islamic State.
The Daily Beast’s Best Longreads, Nov 3-9, 2014|William Boot|November 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“ISIS is pure barbarism, it is bloodthirsty,” Marchouch told The Daily Beast in an interview.
ISIS’s Black Flags Are Flying in Europe|Nadette De Visser|July 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Maximian, a Pannonian peasant, betrayed the savageness of his nature by his bloodthirsty cruelty.
The Catacombs of Rome|William Henry Withrow
It was some little time before Clarence Tinling gave any opinion upon this bloodthirsty document.
The Talking Horse|F. Anstey
I always thought,” the latter said, “that pumas were such bloodthirsty animals.
The Devil-Tree of El Dorado|Frank Aubrey
Sheppy has a standing feud with a neighbour's dog that is amusing rather than bloodthirsty.
The Red Cow and Her Friends|Peter McArthur
In Scotland the hag of the south-west wind is similarly a bloodthirsty and fearsome demon.
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria|Donald A. Mackenzie

British Dictionary definitions for bloodthirsty

bloodthirsty

/ (ˈblʌdˌθɜːstɪ) /

adjective -thirstier or -thirstiest

murderous; cruel

taking pleasure in bloodshed or violence

describing or depicting killing and violence; gruesomea bloodthirsty film

Derived forms of bloodthirsty

bloodthirstily, adverbbloodthirstiness, noun

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