bloodshed
Violence causing death
Bloodshed is the killing or wounding of people, especially in violent conflict.
The word emphasizes the physical reality of violence—blood being spilled: The treaty ended years of bloodshed.
It often appears in calls for peace or warnings about escalation: We must prevent further bloodshed.
Widespread violent death
- slaughterKilling for meat
- massacreLarge-scale unlawful killing
- killingCausing death deliberately
- butcherySavage killing
gore · mayhem · atrocity · rampage · havoc · murder · homicide · manslaughter
Armed hostile engagement
- battleArmed military engagement
- warfareArmed conflict between groups
- conflictOpposition between parties
- hostilitiesActive armed fighting
fighting · skirmish · siege · invasion · campaign · frontline · battlefield · trenches
Cessation of life
- mourningPeriod following loss
- griefIntense sorrow from loss
- bereavementState following loss
- tragedyDisastrous or sorrowful event
sorrow · victims · survivors · memorial · remembrance · devastation · suffering · trauma
carnage
Widespread violent death
butchery · gore · mayhem · atrocity · rampage · havoc · murder · homicide · manslaughter · bloodbath
combat
Armed hostile engagement
- battleArmed military engagement
- warfareArmed conflict between groups
- conflictOpposition between parties
hostilities · fighting · skirmish · siege · invasion · campaign · frontline · battlefield · trenches · casualties
death
Cessation of life
- mourningPeriod following loss
- griefIntense sorrow from loss
- bereavementState following loss
tragedy · sorrow · victims · survivors · memorial · remembrance · devastation · suffering · trauma · anguish
savage
Fierce and untamed
vicious · ferocious · ruthless · gruesome · cold-blooded · heinous · pitiless · remorseless · inhuman · fiendish
- warfarebattle, combat, attack, war, armed conflict
- carnagebloodbath, massacre, slaughter, butchery, carnage
- crueltycruelty, brutality, inhumanity, viciousness, ruthlessness
- literary violenceviolence, brutality, cruelty, murder mystery, massacre
- martyrdommartyrs, martyr, Christian martyrs, Catholic martyrs, Stephen
- savagerybarbarism, barbarity, brutality, brutishness, cruelty
bloodshedpeace
Freedom from disturbance
nonviolence · harmlessness · preservation of life · bloodlessness · safety
bloodshedpeaceful resolution
Conflict ended without violence
diplomacy · negotiation · reconciliation · mediation · compromise
bloodshedpeace
Freedom from disturbance
harmony · friendship · amity · cordiality · friendliness
- bloodshot eyesInflamed, reddened ocular appearance