bloodshed

killing; homicide, manslaughter, murder, assassination, trucidation, iccusion; effusion of blood; blood, bloodshed; gore, slaughter, carnage, butchery; battue., massacre; fusillade, noyade; Thuggism., deathblow, finishing stroke, coup de grace, quietus; execution (capital punishment); judicial murder; martydom., butcher, slayer, murderer, Cain, assassin, terrorist, cutthroat, garroter, bravo, Thug, Moloch, matador, sabreur; guet-a-pens; gallows, executioner (punishment); maneater, apache, hatchet man [U.S.], highbinder [U.S.]., regicide, parricide, matricide, fratricide, infanticide, feticide, foeticide, uxoricide, vaticide., suicide, felo de se, hara-kiri, suttee, Juggernath; immolation, auto da fe, holocaust., suffocation, strangulation, garrote; hanging; lapidation., deadly weapon (arms); Aceldama., [Destruction of animals] slaughtering; phthiozoics; sport, sporting; the chase, venery; hunting, coursing, shooting, fishing; pig-sticking; sportsman, huntsman, fisherman; hunter, Nimrod; slaughterhouse, shambles, abattoir., fatal accident, violent death, casuality.

kill, put to death, slay, shed blood; murder, assassinate, butcher, slaughter, victimize, immolate; massacre; take away life, deprive of life; make away with, put an end to; despatch, dispatch; burke, settle, do for., strangle, garrote, hang, throttle, choke, stifle, suffocate, stop the breath, smother, asphyxiate, drown., saber; cut down, cut to pieces, cut the throat; jugulate; stab, run through the body, bayonet, eviscerate; put to the sword, put to the edge of the sword., shoot dead; blow one's brains out; brain, knock on the head; stone, lapidate; give a deathblow; deal a deathblow; give a quietus, give a coup de grâce., behead, bowstring, electrocute, gas (execute)., hunt, shoot., cut off, nip in the bud, launch into eternity, send to one's last account, sign one's death warrant, strike the death knell of., give no quarter, pour out blood like water; decimate; run amuck; wade knee deep in blood, imbrue one's hands in blood., die a violent death, welter in one's blood; dash out one's brains, blow out one's brains; commit suicide; kill oneself, make away with oneself, put an end to oneself, put an end to it all.

killing; murderous, slaughterous; sanguinary, sanguinolent; blood-stained, bloodthirsty; homicidal, red handed; bloody, bloody minded; ensanguined, gory., mortal, fatal, lethal; dead, deadly; mortiferous, lethiferous; unhealthy; internecine; suicidal., sporting; piscatorial, piscatory.

in at the death.

revolution, bouleversement, subversion, break up; destruction; sudden change, radical change, sweeping organic change; change of state, phase change; quantum leap, quantum jump; clean sweep, coup d'etat, counter revolution., jump, leap, plunge, jerk, start, transilience; explosion; spasm, convulsion, throe, revulsion; storm, earthquake, cataclysm., legerdemain (trick).

revolutionize; new model, remodel, recast; strike out something new, break with the past; change the face of, unsex.

unrecognizable; revolutionary.

violence, inclemency, vehemence, might, impetuosity; boisterousness; effervescence, ebullition; turbulence, bluster; uproar, callithump [U.S.], riot, row, rumpus, le diable a quatre, devil to pay, all the fat in the fire., severity; ferocity, rage, fury; exacerbation, exasperation, malignity; fit, paroxysm; orgasm, climax, aphrodisia; force, brute force; outrage; coup de main; strain, shock, shog; spasm, convulsion, throe; hysterics, passion (state of excitability)., outbreak, outburst; debacle; burst, bounce, dissilience, discharge, volley, explosion, blow-up, blast, detonation, rush, eruption, displosion, torrent., turmoil (disorder); ferment (agitation); storm, tempest, rough weather; squall (wind); earthquake, volcano, thunderstorm., berserk, berserker; fury, dragon, demon, tiger, beldame, Tisiphone, Megaera, Alecto, madcap, wild beast; fire eater (blusterer).

be violent; run high; ferment, effervesce; romp, rampage; run wild, run amuck, run riot; break the peace; rush, tear; rush headlong, rush foremost; raise a storm, make a riot, make a row, kick up a row; rough house; bluster, rage, roar, riot, storm; boil, boil over; fume, foam, come on like a lion; wreak, bear down, ride roughshod, out Herod Herod; spread like wildfire., break out, fly out, burst out; bounce, explode, go off, displode, fly, detonate, thunder, blow up, flash, flare, burst; shock, strain; break open, force open, pry open., render violent; sharpen, stir up, quicken, excite, incite, annoy, urge, lash, stimulate, turn on; irritate, inflame, kindle, suscitate, foment; accelerate, aggravate, exasperate, exacerbate, convulse, infuriate, madden, lash into fury; fan the flame; add fuel to the flame, pour oil on the fire, oleum addere camino., explode; let fly, fly off; discharge, detonate, set off, detonize, fulminate.

violent, vehement; warm; acute, sharp; rough, rude, ungentle, bluff, boisterous, wild; brusque, abrupt, waspish; impetuous; rampant., turbulent; disorderly; blustering, raging; troublous, riotous; tumultuary, tumultuous; obstreperous, uproarious; extravagant; unmitigated; ravening, tameless; frenzied (insane); desperate (rash); infuriate, furious, outrageous, frantic, hysteric, in hysterics., fiery, flaming, scorching, hot, red-hot, ebullient.

violently; amain; by storm, by force, by main force; with might and main; tooth and nail, vi et armis, at the point of the sword, at the point of the bayonet; at one fell swoop; with a high hand, through thick and thin; in desperation, with a vengeance; a outrance, a toute outrance; headlong, head foremost.