Meaning of BLOODSHED
| Pronunciation: | | 'blud`shed
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- [n] the shedding of blood resulting in murder; "he avenged the blood of his kinsmen"
- [n] indiscriminate slaughter
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| | Synonyms: | | battue, blood, bloodbath, bloodletting, gore |
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| | See Also: | | butchery, carnage, execution, homicide, mass murder, massacre, murder, slaughter, slaying | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Blood"shed`\, n. [Blood + shed]
The shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; the act of
shedding human blood, or taking life, as in war, riot, or
murder.
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| | Related Terms: | | all-out war, appeal to arms, armed combat, armed conflict, attack, bane, battle, belligerence, belligerency, blood, bloodbath, bloodletting, braining, butchery, carnage, combat, dealing death, destruction, destruction of life, dispatch, euthanasia, execution, extermination, fighting, flow of blood, genocide, gore, hostilities, hot war, immolation, kill, killing, la guerre, lapidation, martyrdom, martyrization, mercy killing, might of arms, military operations, murder, open hostilities, open war, poisoning, resort to arms, ritual killing, ritual murder, sacrifice, shooting, shooting war, slaughter, slaying, state of war, stoning, taking of life, the sword, total war, violence, war, warfare, warmaking, warring, wartime |
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