blood bath

[bluhd-bath, -bahth]

blood·bath

[bluhd-bath, -bahth]
noun, plural blood·baths [-bathz, -bahthz, -baths, -bahths] .
1.
a ruthless slaughter of a great number of people; massacre.
2.
Informal. a period of disastrous loss or reversal: A few mutual funds performed well in the general bloodbath of the stock market.
3.
a widespread dismissal or purge, as of employees.
Also, blood bath.


Origin:
1865–70; blood + bath1
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blood bath
 
n
indiscriminate slaughter; a massacre

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