Word Meanings - BLOODSHED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; the act of shedding human blood, or taking life, as in war, riot, or murder.
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- BLOODSHEDDER
One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer. - SLAUGHTER
The act of killing. Specifically: The extensive, violent, bloody, or wanton destruction of life; carnage. On war and mutual slaughter bent. Milton. The act of killing cattle or other beasts for market. Syn. -- Carnage; massacre; butchery; murder; - SLAUGHTERHOUSE
A house where beasts are butchered for the market. - CARNAGE
1. Flesh of slain animals or men. A miltitude of dogs came to feast on the carnage. Macaulay. 2. Great destruction of life, as in battle; bloodshed; slaughter; massacre; murder; havoc. The more fearful carnage of the Bloody Circuit. Macaulay. - BLOODSHEDDING
Bloodshed. Shak. - MASSACRE
metzgen, to kill cattle, G. metzger a butcher, and LG. matsken to 1. The killing of a considerable number of human beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty, or contrary to the usages of civilized people; as, the massacre on St. - BLOODSHOT
Red and inflamed; suffused with blood, or having the vessels turgid with blood, as when the conjunctiva is inflamed or irritated. His eyes were bloodshot, . . . and his hair disheveled. Dickens. - MASSACRER
One who massacres. - SLAUGHTEROUS
Destructive; murderous. Shak. M. Arnold. -- Slaugh"ter*ous*ly, adv. - SLAUGHTERER
One who slaughters. - BLOODSHED
The shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; the act of shedding human blood, or taking life, as in war, riot, or murder. - SLAUGHTERMAN
One employed in slaughtering. Shak. - BUTCHERY
1. The business of a butcher. 2. Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter. Shak. The perpetration of human butchery. Prescott. 3. A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed. Like - MANSLAUGHTER
The unlawful killing of a man, either in negligenc (more info) 1. The slaying of a human being; destruction of men. Milton. - SELF-SLAUGHTER
Suicide. Shak.