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US
/ˈbɫədˌʃɛd/
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[ UK /blˈʌdʃɛd/ ]
[ UK /blˈʌdʃɛd/ ]
NOUN
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the shedding of blood resulting in murder
he avenged the bloodshed of his kinsmen -
indiscriminate slaughter
ten days after the bloodletting Hitler gave the action its name
a huge prison battue was ordered
the valley is no stranger to bloodshed and murder
a bloodbath took place when the leaders of the plot surrendered
How To Use bloodshed In A Sentence
- Once primarily limited to intergang violence, the bloodshed of the city’s drug trade began spilling onto the streets of the border city in July 1997, when, at the age of forty-two, Amado Carrillo Fuentes died during a botched cosmetic surgery procedure in Mexico City, supposedly designed to change his appearance to evade law enforcement. THE DAUGHTERS OF JUÁREZ
- Romoeuf, riding a franc etrier, on that old Herb-merchant's route, quickened during the last stages, has got to Varennes; where the Ten thousand now furiously demand, with fury of panic terror, that Royalty shall forthwith return Paris-ward, that there be not infinite bloodshed. The French Revolution
- This election result could well lead to further bloodshed.
- Charle though has decided to call it a day, the endless violence and bloodshed has become too much.
- It's the women who are at the forefront of all the bloodshed, it's the women who have to carry the can and take the flak.
- Nick Gevers said it best: "(the novel) tells in sumptuous claustrophobic detail just how alien -- and alienated -- a human society might become, portraying a mighty far-future city state driven by absolute standards of meritocracy turning against itself in hysteria and bloodshed Jack Vance "To Live Forever" & other extravaganzas
- We're all hands averse to bloodshed, and we intend to work our business without it, if possible -- you understand, _if possible_! The Missing Merchantman
- Therefore it seems that a showdown and perhaps bloodshed is unavoidable, to be recorded by the international press teams aboard the “Freedom Flotilla.” The Volokh Conspiracy » Gaza Blockade Violence News You May Have Missed
- In a statement, the Saudi monarch, King Abdullah, called on the Syrian president to stop what he called the "killing machine and end the bloodshed. NYT > Home Page
- It would unleash bloodshed, sectarian violence and regional instability - the very things that the invasion and occupation themselves have produced.