'bloodbath' definitions:
Definition of 'bloodbath'
(from WordNet)
noun
Indiscriminate slaughter; "a bloodbath took place when the leaders of the plot surrendered"; "ten days after the bloodletting Hitler gave the action its name"; "the valley is no stranger to bloodshed and murder"; "a huge prison battue was ordered" [syn: bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed, battue]
Definition of 'bloodbath'
From: GCIDE
- bloodbath \blood"bath`\ n.
- 1. Indiscriminate slaughter; the killing of multiple persons.
- Syn: bloodletting, bloodshed, battue. [WordNet 1.5]
- 2. [fig.] Substantial losses by many people, as in a mass termination of employment or widespread financial loss; as, the sudden market drop created a bloodbath among overoptimistic investors. [PJC] bloodberry
Synonyms of 'bloodbath'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- bloodshed,
- blue ruin,
- breakup,
- butchery,
- carnage,
- consumption,
- damnation,
- decimation,
- depredation,
- desolation,
- despoilment,
- despoliation,
- destruction,
- devastation,
- disintegration,
- disorganization,
- disruption,
- dissolution,
- final solution,
- genocide,
- havoc,
- hecatomb,
- holocaust,
- mass destruction,
- mass murder,
- massacre,
- perdition,
- pogrom,
- race extermination,
- race-murder,
- ravage,
- ruin,
- ruination,
- saturnalia of blood,
- shambles,
- slaughter,
- spoliation,
- undoing,
- vandalism,
- waste,
- wholesale murder,
- wrack,
- wrack and ruin,
- wreck