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n. The shedding of blood, especially the injury or killing of people.

n. The shedding or spilling of blood.

n. A slaughter; destruction of life, notably on a large scale.

n. The shedding of one's own blood; specifically, the death of Christ.

n. A bloodshot condition or appearance; an effusion of blood in the eye.

n. The shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; the act of shedding human blood, or taking life, as in war, riot, or murder.

n. The shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; destruction of life: as, “deadly bloodshed,”

n. The shedding of one's own blood; specifically, the death of Christ.

n. A bloodshot condition or appearance; an effusion of blood in the eye.

n. the shedding of blood resulting in murder

n. indiscriminate slaughter

"An _arrière pensée_ should lie hidden in all minds -- a holy reserve as to cases which _may_ arise similar to such as HAVE arisen, where a merciful bloodshed [Footnote: "_Merciful bloodshed_" -- In reading either the later religious wars of the"

murder    execution    slaying    massacre    carnage    slaughter    mass murder    butchery   

bloodshedding    bloodshedder   

slaughter    bloodletting    carnage    bloodbath   

rapine    carnage    devastation    massacre    anarchy    oppression    strife    treachery    turmoil    mutiny