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bloodbath
CIDE DICTIONARY
bloodbath, n.
- Indiscriminate slaughter; the killing of multiple persons. [WordNet 1.5]
- 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]
THESAURUS
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, wreckFor further exploring for "bloodbath" in Webster Dictionary Online