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

Synonyms

• butchery
• carnage
• death
• holocaust
• massacre
• slaughter

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

Recent Examples on the Web

Real life is worse than the games After the bloodbath in the first game, the players vote by a narrow margin to end the games and leave without any money. —Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2024

And just like that, my hopes for a classic Terence Winter multi-faction bloodbath go up another notch. —Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2024

Filmmaker Parker Finn’s essentially standalone entry takes off at warp speed with an athletic tracking shot of a bloodbath. —Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024

Among Xavier, Marquette, Creighton and UConn, the top of the Big East is gonna be a bloodbath. —Brendan Marks, The Athletic, 22 Nov. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1814, in the meaning defined at sense 1