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bloodshed

noun as in slaughter

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Or will we simply see more senseless bloodshed and another generation of Palestinians defer their dreams of a homeland?

The cop reholsters his gun, and it seems to have ended with no further bloodshed as he moves to retrieve the knife.

True anarchism,” he wrote in 1940, “never justifies bloodshed.

Since then, according to the United Nations, around 300 people have been killed in the bloodshed.

The site posted a “sex tape” starring Alyssa Milano that was actually all about the bloodshed in Syria.

At that moment the crime and inefficacy of bloodshed, in avenging injuries like his, or any injuries, struck upon his soul.

The squabbles between the armed natives and their leaders, however, were several times on the point of producing bloodshed.

The motive of this harmless ruse was to bolster up Spanish prestige and thereby avoid bloodshed.

Amid the perpetration of much bloodshed and tyranny, Christianity has certainly achieved some good.

Thus was a most important revolution brought about without bloodshed, and almost without disturbance.

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On this page you'll find 29 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to bloodshed, such as: bloodbath, bloodletting, carnage, fighting, killing, and massacre.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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