bloodsoaked
Saturated with crimson
Bloodsoaked describes something saturated or drenched with blood.
The term appears most often in dramatic or literary contexts—bloodsoaked bandages, a bloodsoaked battlefield.
Figuratively, it characterizes people or regimes responsible for much killing: a bloodsoaked dictator, the bloodsoaked history of colonialism.
Also spelled blood-soaked.
Graphic bloody violence
- carnageWidespread violent death
- slaughterKilling for meat
- massacreLarge-scale unlawful killing
- battlefieldCombat engagement area
combat · warfare · brutality · savagery · killing · murder · mayhem · butchery
Disturbing, death-obsessed
- gruesomeCausing horror and disgust
- grislyShockingly horrific
- ghastlyTerrifyingly horrible or pale
- nightmarishFrightening like bad dreams
visceral · shocking · disturbing · terrifying · haunting · chilling · monstrous · gory
gore
Graphic bloody violence
battlefield · combat · warfare · brutality · savagery · killing · murder · mayhem · butchery · atrocity
macabre
Disturbing, death-obsessed
nightmarish · visceral · shocking · disturbing · terrifying · haunting · chilling · monstrous · gory · lurid
guilty
Responsible for wrongdoing
- vengefulWanting to harm back
- tyrannicalExercising power unjustly
- mercilessShowing no clemency
ruthless · oppressive · murderous · cruel · barbaric · warlike · violent · stained · tainted · cursed
drenched
Thoroughly wet throughout
sopping · sodden · imbued · suffused · bathed · splattered · smeared · caked · coated · pooling