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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bloodshed \Blood"shed'\, noun [Blood + shed] The shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; the act of shedding human blood, or taking life, as in war, riot, or murder.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
bloodshed
noun
1: the shedding of blood resulting in murder; "he avenged the blood of his kinsmen" [syn: {blood}, {gore}]
2: indiscriminate slaughter [syn: {bloodbath}, {bloodletting}, {battue}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
62 Moby Thesaurus words for "bloodshed": all-out war, appeal to arms, armed combat, armed conflict, attack, bane, battle, belligerence, belligerency, blood, bloodbath, bloodletting, braining, butchery, carnage, combat, dealing death, destruction, destruction of life, dispatch, euthanasia, execution, extermination, fighting, flow of blood, genocide, gore, hostilities, hot war, immolation, kill, killing, la guerre, lapidation, martyrdom, martyrization, mercy killing, might of arms, military operations, murder, open hostilities, open war, poisoning, resort to arms, ritual killing, ritual murder, sacrifice, shooting, shooting war, slaughter, slaying, state of war, stoning, taking of life, the sword, total war, violence, war, warfare, warmaking, warring, wartime
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