bloodbath

English - Turkish

Definition of bloodbath in English Turkish dictionary

katliam

Polis katliamı önlemek istedi. - The police wanted to avoid a bloodbath.

kıyım

toplukıyım

English - English

Definition of bloodbath in English English dictionary

Indiscriminate killing or slaughter

emphasis If you describe an event as a bloodbath, you are emphasizing that a lot of people were killed very violently. The war degenerated into a bloodbath of tribal killings. the violent killing of many people at one time = massacre

{i} massacre, slaughter, murder, butchery

indiscriminate slaughter

Related Terms

bloodbaths

plural of bloodbath

Turkish pronunciation

blʌdbäth

Pronunciation

/ˈblədˌbaᴛʜ/ /ˈblʌdˌbæθ/

Etymology

[ 'bl&d-"bath, -"b[a']th ] (noun.) 1867. Coined in 1867. Compound of blood and bath, the latter used to refer in the metaphorical sense to a deluge of a thing.