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Synonyms for bloodshed

Grammar : Noun
Spell : bluhd-shed or bluhd-shed-ing
Phonetic Transcription : ˈblʌdˌʃɛd or ˈblʌdˌʃɛd ɪŋ

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Définition of bloodshed

Origin :
  • also blood-shed, c.1500, "the shedding of (one's) blood," from verbal phrase (attested in late Old English), from blood (n.) + shed (v.). The sense of "slaughter" is much older (early 13c., implied in bloodshedding).
  • noun slaughter
Example sentences :
  • There will be enquiries, explanations, quarrels, and bloodshed.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
  • The bloodshed at this point was greater than at the gateway.
  • Extract from : « Yorkshire Painted And Described » by Gordon Home
  • If this pursuit is continued, there will probably be bloodshed either on one side or the other.
  • Extract from : « The Hunted Outlaw » by Anonymous
  • Once let them get drunk on buza, and there's certain to be bloodshed.'
  • Extract from : « A Hero of Our Time » by M. Y. Lermontov
  • But this was better, since it could only mean that blows and bloodshed were in the air.
  • Extract from : « The Golden Age » by Kenneth Grahame
  • The scene bore all too palpably the marks of violence and bloodshed.
  • Extract from : « Leading Articles on Various Subjects » by Hugh Miller
  • Notice, too, how little is said of the bloodshed; that is Hellenic as well as Xenophontine, I fancy.
  • Extract from : « Cyropaedia » by Xenophon
  • In his life of turmoil and bloodshed he had halted to secure for her the right to a principality.
  • Extract from : « The Treasure Trail » by Marah Ellis Ryan
  • The world is well edified by tales of mob violence and bloodshed.
  • Extract from : « Gerald Fitzgerald » by Charles James Lever
  • For the purpose of all their delays had been compromise, and their hope was the avoidance of bloodshed.
  • Extract from : « The Siege of Boston » by Allen French

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