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BLOODBATH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bloodbath mean?
• BLOODBATH (noun)
The noun BLOODBATH has 1 sense:
1. indiscriminate slaughter
Familiarity information: BLOODBATH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Indiscriminate slaughter
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
battue; bloodbath; bloodletting; bloodshed
Context example:
a huge prison battue was ordered
Hypernyms ("bloodbath" is a kind of...):
butchery; carnage; mass murder; massacre; slaughter (the savage and excessive killing of many people)
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