Synonyms:
bloodshed, gore
Meaning: the shedding of blood resulting in murder; "he avenged the bloodshed of his kinsmen"
Usage examples
The darkness, the bloodshed, the sacrifices, all these affected me as they had once affected her.
Planting himself on this position, he commenced the devastation and bloodshed which followed to effect our subjugation.
Before soldiers were placed there, scenes of conflict and bloodshed were very common indeed--a sad spectacle for Jews and Moslems and other enemies of the Christ to gaze upon.
Against all these old isolations, these obsolescent particularisms, the forces of mechanical and scientific development fight, and fight irresistibly; and upon the general recognition of this conflict, upon the intelligence and courage with which its inflexible conditions are negotiated, depends very largely the amount of bloodshed and avoidable misery the coming years will hold.