Definition of bloodbath | Bee Dictionary of English

n indiscriminate slaughter
a bloodbath took place when the leaders of the plot surrendered

After the bloodbath of the Crusades, when Saladin reconquered Jerusalem for Islam in 1187, the Jews (barred from the city by the Crusaders) were invited to return, and even the .
Sure, the movie climaxes in a bloodbath, with all the perps get blown up, run over or impaled.
Paramilitary forces were able to keep the revenge mobs from the Uighur quarter, preventing another bloodbath.

Scary Movie: The Fear Factor of Mad Men’s Season Six
In the end—at least for now—it was not a Manson-style murder, a violent home invasion, a riot or an office bloodbath that befell Mad Men last Sunday. It was Ken Cosgrove getting unceremoniously Cheneyed in the face by a trigger-happy GM executive and surviving to tell the tale, wearing the eyepatch prefigured by Stan’s poster of Moshe Dayan. Violence in “The Quality of Mercy” came as violence ...
June 18, 2013 - Tuned In
'True Blood' Poll: Will Sookie and Eric Get Together on Season Six?
(HBO) On last night's season six premiere of True Blood , we got a nice set-up to the drama and chaos and bloodbath that will inevitably unfold: [SPOILER] The human government enacted a bunch of ordinances against vampires, Warlow is on the loose, and Bill just got triple possessed by the naked God-vamp herself, Lilith. Oh, boy. But on a softer, more tender note, Sookie stabbed evil Bill in the ...
June 17, 2013 - Zimbio
Emerging market Fund Flows – Nasty but could be worse and might get worse
Last week, Emerging Market Equity Fund Flows were down for the 4th straight week with the largest outflows seen since the August 2011 bloodbath. China ( FXI , quote ) was the big loser
June 17, 2013 - Nasdaq

Shane Battier in SI.com
The Phoenix-San Antonio matchup is going to be an absolute bloodbath,Houston's Shane Battier said. "The Dallas-New Orleans series is going to be very, very competitive. Denver is athletic enough to match up with the Lakers; you never know...
Chuck Hagel in Forbes
To feed more American troops into this bloodbath is wrong,Hagel said Thursday on ABC's "Good Morning America."
Radovan Karadzic in Irish Times
There are 300,000 to 400,000 armed Serbs in Bosnia-Herzegovina . . . It will be a real bloodbath,Mr Karadzic predicted.