1. Typically refers to a situation in which many people are killed in a violent and extreme manner.
2. Also refers to a situation that does not involve extreme violence but involves the absolute dominance by one thing over another.
3. Death by bleeding within a bathtub.
4. In financial terms: refers to an investment resulting in massive and unexpected loss.
1. Not many people were killed in the Boston Massacre, but it was still a bloodbath.
2. Although the Broncos expected to be competitive in Super Bowl 48, the Seahawks quickly turned it into a bloodbath.
3. On July 13, 1793 Jean-Paul Marat slumped into his bathtub after being stabbed -- a literal and figurative bloodbath. The assailant claimed that she was preventing an even bigger bloodbath but was guillotined anyway.
4. I thought that putting my entire life savings into Lehman Brothers in 2007 would allow me to retire sooner than everyone else. Instead, it was a bloodbath.
by Supreme Court Justice Scalia July 21, 2014
by Supreme Court Justice Scalia March 30, 2009