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bloodshed

noun as in slaughter

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While it may be hard to find some R&R with all the ongoing bloodshed, there are moments of peace to be found in Ancient Greece.

Fights over territory and control of gambling profits often erupted into bombings and bloodshed.

Human rights activists say Facebook’s inaction allowed the military to whip up hate against the Rohingya and lay the groundwork for the bloodshed, which was generally accepted, and even praised, by many in Myanmar.

León, who was featured in the PBS American Masters series, wrote of the love, bloodshed and poetry she found surviving New York’s foster care system while navigating complex issues of race, gender and sexual trauma.

In both works, the flawed relationship between creator and creature drives the plot, and in both cases, the conflict ends in bloodshed.

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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