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Definition: Bloodshed |
BloodshedNoun1. The shedding of blood resulting in murder; "he avenged the blood of his kinsmen". 2. Indiscriminate slaughter. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bloodshed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Synonyms: BloodshedSynonyms: battue (n), blood (n), bloodbath (n), bloodletting (n), gore (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Warfare | Noun: warfare; fighting;Verb: hostilities; war, arms, the sword; Mars, Bellona, grim visaged war, horrida bella; bloodshed. |
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Crosswords: Bloodshed |
| English words defined with "bloodshed": Aceldama ♦ bloodguilt, bloodguilty, bloodily, bloodless, bloodlust, Bloodshedding, bloodthirsty, bloody-minded, butcherly ♦ crimson, cutthroat ♦ delay, detain ♦ gory ♦ homicidal ♦ internecine ♦ murderous, mutually ruinous ♦ nonviolent ♦ red ♦ sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous, stay ♦ unbloody ♦ violent. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "bloodshed": INFALAPSARIAN ♦ ubiquity. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "bloodshed": Bloodsucker. (references) |
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Screenplays | In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance (The Third Man; writing credit: Graham Greene; Alexander Korda) | |
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John Locke | 1690 | But if they, who say it lays a foundation for rebellion, mean that it may occasion civil wars, or intestine broils, to tell the people they are absolved from obedience when illegal attempts are made upon their liberties or properties, and may oppose the unlawful violence of those who were their magistrates, when they invade their properties contrary to the trust put in them; and that therefore this doctrine is not to be allowed, being so destructive to the peace of the world: they may as well say, upon the same ground, that honest men may not oppose robbers or pirates, because this may occasion disorder or bloodshed. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Economic History | Sri Lanka | The north and east became the scene of bloodshed as security forces attempted to suppress the LTTE and other militant groups. (references) |
Senegal | Although this was put down without bloodshed, Dia was arrested and imprisoned, and Senegal adopted a new constitution that consolidated the President's power. (references) | |
Suriname | In an effort to end the bloodshed, the Surinamese Government negotiated a peace treaty called the Kourou Accord, with Brunswijk in 1989. Bouterse and other military leaders blocked the accord's implementation. (references) | |
Political Economy | West Bank | After four Palestinians were killed, the clashes throughout the West Bank and Gaza, eventually developing into the prolonged period of violence and bloodshed known as "al-Aqsa Intifada". (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | UBIQUITY, n. The gift or power of being in all places at one time, but not in all places at all times, which is omnipresence, an attribute of God and the luminiferous ether only. This important distinction between ubiquity and omnipresence was not clear to the mediaeval Church and there was much bloodshed about it. Certain Lutherans, who affirmed the presence everywhere of Christ's body were known as Ubiquitarians. For this error they were doubtless damned, for Christ's body is present only in the eucharist, though that sacrament may be performed in more than one place simultaneously. In recent times ubiquity has not always been understood -- not even by Sir Boyle Roche, for example, who held that a man cannot be in two places at once unless he is a bird. |
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Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | The opportunities for a final settlement are great, and the price of failure is a return to the bloodshed and hatred that for too long have brought tragedy to all of the peoples of this area and repeatedly edged the world to the brink of war. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | We will carry on the tradition of a good and worthy people who have brought light where there was darkness, warmth where there was cold, medicine where there was disease, food where there was hunger, and peace where there was only bloodshed. |
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| "Bloodshed" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bloodshed" is used about 158 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 158 | 24,965 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "bloodshed": without bloodshed. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bloodshed | 49 |
bloodshed c++ | 6 |
bloodshed c dev | 6 |
bloodshed c | 4 |
bloodshed dev | 4 |
bloodshed software | 3 |
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bloodshed iraq | 3 |
bloodshed c++ dev | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "bloodshed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | gjakderdhje (bloodbath, butchery). (various references) | |
Arabic | هدر الدم, سفك الدماء (butchery), إراقة الدماء. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | кръвопролитие (slaughter). (various references) | |
Chinese | 血海. (various references) | |
Czech | krveprolití (bloodshot, carnage, massacre). (various references) | |
Dutch | bloedvergieten. (various references) | |
Esperanto | sangoverŝo. (various references) | |
Farsi | سفک دماء , خونریزی (Carnage, Slaughter). (various references) | |
Finnish | verenvuodatus. (various references) | |
French | massacre (blood bath), effusion de sang, carnage. (various references) | |
German | blutvergießen (bloodshet). (various references) | |
Greek | αιματοχυσία (blood). (various references) | |
Hebrew | תשפוכת דם, שפיכת דמים. (various references) | |
Hungarian | vérontás (carnage). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pertumpahan darah. (various references) | |
Italian | spargimento di sangue, massacro (massacre). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 血の雨 , 流血 , 刃傷沙汰 , 刃傷 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | にんじょうざた, にんじょう (common sense, customs and manners, empathy, human nature, humanity, kindness, sympathy), りゅうけつ, ちのあめ. (various references) | |
Manx | fuillaghtys (tolerance, toleration), deayrtey folley. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oodshedblay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | derramamento de sangue (bloodletting). (various references) | |
Romanian | vãrsare de sânge, sângerare (bleeding), mãcel (butchery, carnage, holocaust, massacre, slaughter). (various references) | |
Russian | кровопролитие (slaughter). (various references) | |
Scottish | fuileachd. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | krvoproliće (bloodbath). (various references) | |
Spanish | matanza (killing, slaughter, massacre), efusión de sangre, derramamiento de sangre. (various references) | |
Swedish | blodutgjutelse. (various references) | |
Thai | การฆ่าฟัน. (various references) | |
Turkish | katliam (battue, bloodletting, butchery, carnage, decimation, hecatomb, massacre, pogrom, slaughter), kan dökme (bloodletting, carnage, slaughter). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | кровопролиття. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự chém giết (blood, blood bath, carnage), sự đổ máu (blood bath). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cruor, cruor, cruoris, cruore, cruorem. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bloodshed": bloodsheds. (additional references) | |
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"Bloodshed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: blodshed. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bloodshed" (pronounced blu"dshe'd) |
| 4 | -d sh e' d | woodshed. |
| 3 | -sh e' d | watershed. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-d-e-h-l-o-o-s" | |
-2 letters: beholds, blooded, boodled, boodles, doodles, shooled. | |
-3 letters: behold, bloods, boodle, dholes, dodoes, doodle, hoboed, hoboes, hooded, loosed, oboles, oodles, shooed, soloed. | |
-4 letters: blood, boded, bodes, bolds, boles, bolos, booed, dhole, dodos, doled, doles, dosed, helos, hobos, holds, holed, holes, hoods, hosed, hosel, lobed, lobes, lobos, lodes, looed, loose, oboes, obole, obols, oleos, oohed. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-d-e-h-l-o-o-s" | |
+1 letter: bloodsheds. | |
+2 letters: bondholders. | |
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