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blood⋅bath

[bluhd-bath, -bahth]
–noun, plural -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 + bath 1
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blood·bath also blood bath   (blŭd'bāth', -bäth')   
n.  Savage, indiscriminate killing; a massacre.
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