Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Savage, indiscriminate killing; a massacre.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Indiscriminate slaughter; the killing of multiple persons.
- noun Substantial losses by many people, as in a mass termination of employment or widespread financial loss.
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- noun
Indiscriminate killing orslaughter . - noun figuratively An
upset (as of a game withunexpected results.)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun indiscriminate slaughter
Etymologies
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Coined in 1867. Compound of blood and bath, the latter used to refer in the metaphorical sense to a deluge of a thing.
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