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bloodbath
[bluhd-bath, -bahth]
noun
plural
bloodbathsa ruthless slaughter of a great number of people; massacre.
Informal.a period of disastrous loss or reversal.
A few mutual funds performed well in the general bloodbath of the stock market.
a widespread dismissal or purge, as of employees.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of bloodbath1
Example Sentences
One Axios headline, for example, warned of a “white-collar bloodbath” resulting from AI taking jobs from humans.
Spoiler alert: they don’t, and the film boasts one of the most vicious shark bloodbaths I’ve seen yet.
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.
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.
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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