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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  bloodbath \blood"bath`\ n.
     1. Indiscriminate slaughter; the killing of multiple persons.
  
     Syn: bloodletting, bloodshed, battue.
          [WordNet 1.5]
  


     2. [fig.] 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] bloodberry

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  bloodbath
       n : indiscriminate slaughter [syn: {bloodletting}, {bloodshed},
           {battue}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  44 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, wreck
  
  

















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