bloodbath

3 definitions found

bloodbath - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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

bloodbath - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  bloodbath
      n 1: 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]

bloodbath - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  44 Moby Thesaurus words for "bloodbath":
     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