Bloodbath vs Bloodshed - What's the difference?
bloodbath | bloodshed | Synonyms |
Indiscriminate killing or slaughter, a massacre.
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, original= Kæmpe Viser
, chapter= Stark Tiderich and Olger Danske
, section= Popular Heroic and Romantic Ballads, translated from the Northern Languages, with Notes and Illustrations
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, publisher= James Ballantyne and Co.
, location= Edinburgh
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, passage= There lay the steed; here lay the man; Gude friends that day did twin: They leuch na a' to the feast that cam Whan the het bluid-bath was done.
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* 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
(sports) An aggressive or very violent contest or confrontation.
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, year= 1951
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, author= Tim Cohane
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, title= The Yale Football Story
, url= http://books.google.com/books?id=h1VxAAAAMAAJ&q=blood+bath
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, chapter= Be Each, Pray God, a Gentlemen!
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, publisher= G. P. Putnam's Sons
, location= New York
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, page= 93
, passage= Although the Hampden Park blood bath of '94 caused Yale and Harvard to break off football relations for the next two years, they kept close watch on each other.
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(figuratively) An upset (as of a game with unexpected results) or heavy defeat.
(figuratively, business) A large financial loss or massive layoff brought about by negative economic conditions.
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, chapter= Richard Daley Wins Chicago Mayoral Race; Blacks Fail to Unite Behind Tim Evans
, section= National Report
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, publisher= Johnson Publishing Company
, location= Chicago
, editor= Robert E. Johnson
, volume= 76
, page= 9
, passage= In an interview after the victory, Daley sought to assure Blacks that there would be no personnel bloodbath at City Hall.
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A bath taken in warm blood used as a restorative or medical treatment.
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, title= The London Medical Gazette; Being a Weekly Journal of Medicine and the Collateral Sciences
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, chapter= On Blood-Baths: An Historical Notice.
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, publisher= Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman
, location= London
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, volume= 13
, page= 813
, passage= On Blood-Baths : An Historical Notice. By Dr. Hecker. According to a dark tradition which is incidentally mentioned by Pliny, the ancient kings of Egypt used to bathe in human blood when they were seized with leprosy.
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The shedding or spilling of blood.
A slaughter; destruction of life, notably on a large scale.
(obsolete) The shedding of one's own blood; specifically, the death of Christ.
(obsolete) A bloodshot condition or appearance; an effusion of blood in the eye.
Bloodshed is a synonym of bloodbath.
As nouns the difference between bloodbath and bloodshed
is that bloodbath is indiscriminate killing or slaughter, a massacre while bloodshed is the shedding or spilling of blood.bloodbath
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Alternative forms
* blood bathNoun
- In movie terms, it suggests Paul Verhoeven in Robocop/Starship Troopers mode, an R-rated bloodbath where the grim spectacle of children murdering each other on television is bread-and-circuses for the age of reality TV, enforced by a totalitarian regime to keep the masses at bay.