Play also offers a means for establishing social hierarchy without bloodshed.
Similarly, physicians who oppose bloodshed must neither do surgery nor prescribe it.
It has resulted in much more injustice and bloodshed than the one above.
Even in their present state they were valuable enough to incite avarice and bloodshed.
Others were convinced that moving forward meant recapturing the past, even if it led to bloodshed.
While the reason for the ancient wars may be lost in the mists of time, the fierceness of the bloodshed is no longer in doubt.
It seemed impossible that these delicate pieces of paper could convey the fury and bloodshed of warfare.
And as you say, through all that bloodshed, it marked the birth of our nations.
Yes it will be bad, there will be bloodshed and a lot of pain.
The book ends in a way that is so preposterous that it does not even succeed in being horrible in spite of much bloodshed.
British Dictionary definitions for bloodshed
bloodshed
/ˈblʌdˌʃɛd/
noun
1.
slaughter; killing
Word Origin and History for bloodshed
n.
also blood-shed, c.1500, "the shedding of (one's) blood," from verbal phrase (attested in late Old English), from blood (n.) + shed (v.). The sense of "slaughter" is much older (early 13c., implied in bloodshedding).