bloodbath

English

Alternative forms

• blood bath

Etymology

Coined in 1867. Compound of blood and bath, the latter used to refer in the metaphorical sense to a deluge of a thing.

Noun

bloodbath (plural bloodbaths)

1. Indiscriminate killing or slaughter.
   • 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[1]

     In movie terms, it suggests Paul Verhoeven in Robocop/Starship Troopers mode, an R-rated bloodbath where the grim spectacle of children murdering each other on television is bread-and-circuses for the age of reality TV, enforced by a totalitarian regime to keep the masses at bay.

2. (figuratively) An upset (as of a game with unexpected results.)

Translations

indiscriminate killing or slaughter

• Arabic: مذبحة (ar) (maḏbaḥa) f
• Bulgarian: кръвопролитие (bg) (krǎvoprolitie) n, клане (bg) (klane) n
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 血洗 (cmn) (xuèxǐ), 大屠殺 (cmn), 大屠杀 (cmn) (dàtúshā)

• Danish: blodbad
• Dutch: bloedbad
• Finnish: verilöyly (fi)
• French: bain de sang (fr)
• German: Blutbad (de) n
• Hebrew: מרחץ-דמים (he) (merkhatz-damym) m
• Hungarian: vérfürdő (hu)

• Icelandic: blóðbað (is) n
• Italian: bagno di sangue (it) m
• Japanese: 大虐殺 (ja) (だいぎゃくさつ, daigyakusatsu), 刃傷沙汰 (ja) (にんじょうざた, ninjōzata), 刃傷 (ja) (にんじょう, ninjō)
• Kannada: ರಣಗೊಲೆ (kn) (raṇagole)
• Portuguese: banho de sangue m
• Russian: кровавая баня (ru) (krovávaja bánja) f, (bloodshed) кровопролитие (ru) (krovoprolítije), резня (ru) (reznjá) f
• Spanish: baño de sangre m
• Swedish: blodbad (sv)

upset

• French: massacre (fr) m, bain de sang (fr) m, boucherie (fr) f