bloodbath
noun
blood·bath
ˈbləd-ˌbath 
-ˌbäth
1
: a great slaughter
2
a
: a notably fierce, violent, or destructive contest or struggle
the campaign has become a bloodbath
b
: a major economic disaster
a market bloodbath
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Examples of bloodbath in a Sentence
Thousands of people were murdered in the bloodbath.
one side was so much better armed that the battle quickly turned into a bloodbath
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Breathless viewers were left to wonder how this bloodbath might play out.
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Andy Swift, TVLine, 7 Jan. 2025
Around them were 19,000 empty seats that in just 24 hours would be filled with spectators watching this inevitable bloodbath of a basketball game.
—Sam Blum, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
Having the big bloodbath take place in the penultimate episode rather than the season finale is, at this point, a pretty old-school HBO-style maneuver, dating back to the New Golden Age heyday that ran from The Sopranos through Game of Thrones.
—Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2024
Conservatives keep claiming that California’s $20 fast-food minimum wage led to a job bloodbath.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024
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Andy Swift, TVLine, 7 Jan. 2025
Around them were 19,000 empty seats that in just 24 hours would be filled with spectators watching this inevitable bloodbath of a basketball game.
—Sam Blum, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
Having the big bloodbath take place in the penultimate episode rather than the season finale is, at this point, a pretty old-school HBO-style maneuver, dating back to the New Golden Age heyday that ran from The Sopranos through Game of Thrones.
—Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2024
Conservatives keep claiming that California’s $20 fast-food minimum wage led to a job bloodbath.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024
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“Bloodbath.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bloodbath. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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