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[syn: bloodthirsty, bloody-minded, sanguinary]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Bloodthirsty \Blood"thirst`y\, a.
Eager to shed blood; cruel; sanguinary; murderous; having a
bloodlust. -- Blood"thirst`i*ness (?), n.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
bloodthirsty
adj 1: marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed;
"bloody-minded tyrants"; "bloodthirsty yells"; "went
after the collaborators with a sanguinary fury that
drenched the land with blood"-G.W.Johnson [syn:
bloodthirsty, bloody-minded, sanguinary]