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bloodbath

Or blood bath

[bluhd-bath, -bahth]

noun

plural

bloodbaths 
  1. a ruthless slaughter of a great number of people; massacre.

  2. Informal.a period of disastrous loss or reversal.

    A few mutual funds performed well in the general bloodbath of the stock market.

  3. a widespread dismissal or purge, as of employees.



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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of bloodbath1

First recorded in 1865–70; blood + bath 1
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One Axios headline, for example, warned of a “white-collar bloodbath” resulting from AI taking jobs from humans.

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Spoiler alert: they don’t, and the film boasts one of the most vicious shark bloodbaths I’ve seen yet.

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They said the scene in the central square resembled "a bloodbath" with the bodies of the seven youths, two of them aged under 18, strewn across the pavement.

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It drives home the bloody consequences of the war that Russia started, in which hundreds of thousands have so far been killed, a "never-ending bloodbath" as US President Donald Trump calls it.

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Politicians often accuse journalists of a splash of hyperbole, but it would be a struggle to top the Tory leader's description of her party's results as a "bloodbath."

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