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say it: BLUHD-shed
bloodshed is a noun meaning "the shedding of blood resulting in murder". It carries 2 recorded senses.
indiscriminate slaughter
“a bloodbath took place when the leaders of the plot surrendered”
“ten days after the bloodletting Hitler gave the action its name”
“the valley is no stranger to bloodshed and murder”
“a huge prison battue was ordered”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bloodshed come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.