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.