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bloodbath

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˈblʌdˌbɑːθ/Part of speech nounSorted abbdhlootStarts with BEnds with H0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. indiscriminate slaughter

Word origin

From blood + bath, the latter used referring to a metaphorical deluge. Compare West Frisian bloedbad (“bloodbath”), Dutch bloedbad (“bloodbath”), German Blutbad (“bloodbath”), Danish blodbad (“bloodbath”), Norwegian Bokmål blodbad (“bloodbath”), Swedish blodbad (“bloodbath”), Icelandic blóðbad (“bloodbath”).

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Robert Halfon, a senior Tory backbencher, warned that a general election now would be a “bloodbath” for his party.

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