sanguinary

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Accompanied by bloodshed

every one of which took its rise from some noble family that succeeded in grasping the purple after a sanguinary struggle..

Consisting of, covered with or similar in appearance to blood

Here is the premeditation, the thrill, the strain of accumulating victory or disaster—and no smashed nor sanguinary bodies , that we who are old enough to remember a real modern war know to be the reality of belligerence.

Eager for bloodshed; bloodthirsty

The defence set up for Mahomet is equally availing for every sanguinary and revengeful tyrant; .

bloody
{a} bloody, murderous, cruel, horrid
Bloodthirsty; cruel; eager to shed blood
Attended with much bloodshed; bloody; murderous; as, a sanguinary war, contest, or battle
marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed; "bloody-minded tyrants"; "bloodthirsty yells"; "went after the collaborators with a sanguinary fury that drenched the land with blood"-G W Johnson
accompanied by bloodshed; "this bitter and sanguinary war"
The Sanguinaria
The yarrow
Consisting of blood
{s} bloody, covered with blood; bloodthirsty, murderous; composed of or containing blood
involving violence and killing
sanguinary ant
slave-making ant widely distributed over the northern hemisphere
sanguinarily
in a bloody manner, in the manner of being covered in blood; murderously, in a bloodthirsty manner
sanguinarily
In a sanguinary manner
sanguinary
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