bloodbath

bloodbath
    n 1: 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" [syn: {bloodbath}, {bloodletting},
         {bloodshed}, {battue}]
    

bloodbath \blood"bath`\ n.
   1. Indiscriminate slaughter; the killing of multiple persons.

   Syn: bloodletting, bloodshed, battue.
        [WordNet 1.5]

   2. [fig.] Substantial losses by many people, as in a mass
      termination of employment or widespread financial loss;
      as, the sudden market drop created a bloodbath among
      overoptimistic investors.
      [PJC] bloodberry
    

44 Moby Thesaurus words for "bloodbath":
      bloodshed, blue ruin, breakup, butchery, carnage, consumption,
      damnation, decimation, depredation, desolation, despoilment,
      despoliation, destruction, devastation, disintegration,
      disorganization, disruption, dissolution, final solution, genocide,
      havoc, hecatomb, holocaust, mass destruction, mass murder,
      massacre, perdition, pogrom, race extermination, race-murder,
      ravage, ruin, ruination, saturnalia of blood, shambles, slaughter,
      spoliation, undoing, vandalism, waste, wholesale murder, wrack,
      wrack and ruin, wreck