All bloodletting synonyms
blood·let·ting
B b adj bloodletting
- bloody — Bloody is used by some people to emphasize what they are saying, especially when they are angry.
- murderous — of the nature of or involving murder: a murderous deed.
- offensive — causing resentful displeasure; highly irritating, angering, or annoying: offensive television commercials.
- sanguine — cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident: a sanguine disposition; sanguine expectations.
- bloodstained — Someone or something that is bloodstained is covered with blood.
- sanguinary — full of or characterized by bloodshed; bloody: a sanguinary struggle.
- bleeding — Bleeding is used by some people to emphasize what they are saying, especially when they feel strongly about something or dislike something.
noun bloodletting
- slaughter — Frank, 1908–2001, U.S. novelist and physician.
- massacre — the unnecessary, indiscriminate killing of a large number of human beings or animals, as in barbarous warfare or persecution or for revenge or plunder.
- murder — Law. the killing of another human being under conditions specifically covered in law. In the U.S., special statutory definitions include murder committed with malice aforethought, characterized by deliberation or premeditation or occurring during the commission of another serious crime, as robbery or arson (first-degree murder) and murder by intent but without deliberation or premeditation (second-degree murder)
- massacre — the unnecessary, indiscriminate killing of a large number of human beings or animals, as in barbarous warfare or persecution or for revenge or plunder.
- fighting — fit to fight: a boxer who's no longer in fighting shape.
- killing — the act of killing, especially game: The hounds moved in for the kill.
- bloodbath — If you describe an event as a bloodbath, you are emphasizing that a lot of people were killed very violently.
- carnage — Carnage is the violent killing of large numbers of people, especially in a war.
- genocide — the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.
- annihilation — the act of annihilating
- butchery — You can refer to the cruel killing of a lot of people as butchery when you want to express your horror and disgust at this.
- onslaught — an onset, assault, or attack, especially a vigorous one.
- gore — a city in W Ethiopia.
- slaughterhouse — a building or place where animals are butchered for food; abattoir.
- slaughter — Frank, 1908–2001, U.S. novelist and physician.
- bloodshed — Bloodshed is violence in which people are killed or wounded.
- decimation — to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.
- assassination — to kill suddenly or secretively, especially a politically prominent person; murder premeditatedly and treacherously.