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BLOODBATH: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for BLOODBATH?

Need another word that means the same as “bloodbath”? Find 7 synonyms for “bloodbath” in this overview.

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The synonyms of “Bloodbath” are: battue, bloodletting, bloodshed, slaughter, wholesale slaughter, mass slaughter, wholesale killing

Bloodbath as a Noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “bloodbath” as a noun can have the following definitions:

Indiscriminate slaughter.
An event or situation in which many people are killed in an extremely violent way.

battue	The driving of game towards hunters by beaters. They were shot down like pheasants in a battue.
bloodletting	The surgical removal of some of a patient’s blood for therapeutic purposes. Gang members have halted their internecine bloodletting.
bloodshed	The killing or wounding of people, typically on a large scale during a conflict. The president feared bloodshed* and disorder if the demands for reform were not met.*
mass slaughter	The property of something that is great in magnitude.
slaughter	The killing of animals (as for food. Thousands of calves were exported to the continent for slaughter.
wholesale killing	The selling of goods to merchants; usually in large quantities for resale to consumers.
wholesale slaughter	The selling of goods to merchants; usually in large quantities for resale to consumers.

A bloodbath took place when the leaders of the plot surrendered.
He allowed the protest to go ahead despite warnings that it would spark a bloodbath.

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