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Meanings of bloodletting in anglès

portuguès
banho de sangue
català
massacre
espanyol
carnicería

Indiscriminate slaughter.

massacre
Synonyms
Examples for "bloodshed"
Examples for "bloodshed"
1
Government agents and police, vastly outgunned, ultimately retreated rather than risk bloodshed.
Reuters
2
In time, this power afforded to gangsters would result in widespread bloodshed.
The South African
3
The military said it had to intervene to prevent more serious bloodshed.
Reuters
4
They used modern tactics of propaganda and bloodshed that are familiar today.
The Guardian
5
As casualties mount, concern intensifies that the bloodshed could continue for months.
The Irish Times
1
Russian generals say their peacekeepers prevent an ethnic bloodbath in the region.
Reuters
2
Cricket South Africa has created a bloodbath over the past few days.
The Guardian
3
Six words sum up boxing bloodbath Tim Tszyu is the real deal.
News.com.au
4
The United Nations says it fears for a bloodbath in the north.
Reuters
5
If the Mormons had chosen violence, it would have been a bloodbath.
Leviathan Wakes
1
In 1656 a general battue for priests took place all over Ireland.
The Irish Race in the Past and the Present
2
As for us, we do not confound a battue with a persecution.
The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
3
On page 321, the word battue is not a typographical error.
On the Heels of De Wet
4
So he stepped back into the alley and waited until the battue was over.
Chateau and Country Life in France
5
Of the grand battue, and what the young Duke and Sidonia resolved on there.
Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Rei...
Usage of bloodletting in anglès
1
The Maastricht treaty is viewed today through the prism of Tory bloodletting.
The Guardian
2
If more marriages involved bloodletting, there would probably be far fewer divorces.
Moonburn
3
Burning them at the stake prevented the profuse bloodletting of other measures.
Purity of blood
4
The bloodletting for muni bond funds tracked on a weekly basis continued.
Reuters
5
But, there is a country that far predates this bloodletting and warfare.
Reuters
6
Your people, their friends and neighbours are tired of this endless bloodletting.
Reuters
7
Yet further bloodletting will not make either crime or controversy disappear.
The Irish Times
8
History is littered with examples of French bloodletting at Ireland's expense.
The Irish Times
9
Control of the library changed hands often, accompanied by immense bloodletting.
Library of Souls
10
But he tried to make sure the bloodletting had a point.
Reuters
11
Rather than providing the expected bloodletting, the speech was remarkably conciliatory.
The Guardian
12
Should there be a bloodletting and if so in what area?
The Irish Times
13
Only now the bloodletting was gone at on a colossal scale.
In the Claws of the German Eagle
14
After his night of bloodletting and filmmaking, he looked sartorially perfect.
Tales of the Slayer, Vol. 1
15
It may not be Detroit, but the bloodletting has been widespread.
Reuters
16
This fever will cure him, they say it sobers like bloodletting.
Beauchamp's Career — Volume 6
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Translations for bloodletting
català
massacre
Bloodletting through the time
Bloodletting across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common