adjective
- Accompanied by bloodshed.
- usage: "this bitter and sanguinary war"
- synonyms: gory, sanguineous, slaughterous, butcherly
- 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
- synonyms: bloodthirsty, bloody-minded
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