blood bath
Scene of carnage
A blood bath is a massacre or slaughter—violence that leaves blood everywhere.
The term extends to any devastating loss or destruction: The stock market was a blood bath today, The election turned into a blood bath for the incumbent party.
Also spelled as one word: bloodbath.
- massacreLarge-scale unlawful killing
- butcherySavage killing
- carnageWidespread violent death
- Spanish InquisitionChurch court hunting heretics
- body countTally of the deceased
no survivors · genocide · annihilation · execution · brutality · Holocaust · crimson · Khmer Rouge · atrocity · gore · purge · horror · meltdown · stock market crash · hostile takeover · slash and burn · gruesomeness · violence
outcome for participants
blood bathsafe passage
Protected transit through danger
survival · preservation · rescue · escape · deliverance
conflict resolution method
blood bathpeaceful resolution
Conflict ended without violence
peace · truce · ceasefire · armistice · peace accord