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Meaning of BLOODTHIRSTY

Pronunciation:  'blud`thurstee

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [adj]  marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed; "bloody-minded tyrants"; "bloodthirsty yells"; "went after the collaborators with a sanguinary fury that drenched the land with blood"-G.W.Johnson
 
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 Synonyms: bloody, bloody-minded, sanguinary
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Blood"thirst`y\, a.
Eager to shed blood; cruel; sanguinary; murderous. --
{Blood"thirst`i*ness} (?), n.
 
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