What's the difference between bloodbath and massacre?

Bloodbath


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We hate the police, hate the government, got no opportunities ... Manchester was like a bloodbath.
  • (2) Hamlet, the prototype of inaction, the man who thinks "too precisely on the event", and who, when he does act, unleashes a bloodbath.
  • (3) "And that bloodbath [will be] sponsored by the Marange diamond fields."
  • (4) The ensuing bloodbath left hundreds dead and a generation of amputees.
  • (5) He spoke repeatedly of the EU's policy of integration towards former Yugoslavia, the scene of bloodbaths just 20 years ago: "We have to keep in mind that not so many years ago people from this part of Europe killed each other in awful wars … We are only focusing on what we have achieved on this continent and what could happen if disintegration starts again."
  • (6) Within hours, they were themselves the victims of yet another bloodbath at the hands of police – the second massacre of Morsi supporters in three days and the fourth in the six weeks since the army ousted Morsi on 3 July.
  • (7) Human rights agencies have warned of an imminent bloodbath, with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) refusing to surrender.
  • (8) Sarah Wollaston MP (@sarahwollaston) #Boris was speaking the truth on proxy wars and it's time for all parties in the region to end the sectarian bloodbath December 8, 2016 Crispin Blunt, who chairs the foreign affairs committee, suggested Downing Street could have handled it better.
  • (9) It ended after officials withdrew , fearing a bloodbath.
  • (10) Season two crafted complex characters racked with existential ambivalence – heroines marked for the abyss, fragile, flammable outcasts and desolate prodigies, all of whose private pain was as palpable as the crimson bloodbath head witch Evelyn Poole soaks in.
  • (11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Survivor of Bataclan attack: ‘it was a bloodbath’ He then swivelled and shot through a car drivers’ window.
  • (12) While none of this means the Spurs will be the last team standing after what promises to be an absolute bloodbath of a Western Conference playoffs, recent history says not to bet against them.
  • (13) He recalled how as a young man in Moscow in 1943 he heard Stalin claim the Nazis had carried out the Katyn bloodbath.
  • (14) The only fucking way this country’s ever going to get turned around is it will be a bloodbath,” Stein allegedly said.
  • (15) It was one of the more notorious of the 1994 bloodbath's massacres.
  • (16) He also noted the low level of civilian casualties, contrasting with the kind of bloodbaths Mexicans have become accustomed to in the drug wars.
  • (17) France called for UN action to stop the "bloodbath" in Syria, as the UN secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon , warned world powers not to repeat the mistakes they made in Bosnia.
  • (18) One insider described the changes as a "bloodbath that will change Five forever".
  • (19) Three men accused of plotting a “bloodbath” of Somali immigrants in a small Kansas town in order to provoke a religious war appeared in court on Monday and were ordered to remain in custody.
  • (20) Just don’t say it’ll be like Jeb’s brother’s bloodbath.

Massacre


Definition:

  • (n.) The killing of a considerable number of human beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty, or contrary to the usages of civilized people; as, the massacre on St. Bartholomew's Day.
  • (n.) Murder.
  • (n.) To kill in considerable numbers where much resistance can not be made; to kill with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and contrary to the usages of nations; to butcher; to slaughter; -- limited to the killing of human beings.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Activists said the alleged massacre came a day after 72 were killed at the nearby village of Bayda .
  • (2) The consequences for Syria have been multiple massacres, ethnic cleansing, torture, a humanitarian crisis and the risk of the country's breakup.
  • (3) On hearing the news of Mladic's arrest, I instantly thought of a man I got to know when visiting Sarajevo and the Republika Srpska to write about the Srebrenica massacre.
  • (4) A Yazidi lawmaker, a Kurdish security official and an Iraqi official from the nearby city of Sinjar gave similar accounts, saying Isis fighters had massacred scores of Yazidi men on Friday afternoon after seizing Kocho.
  • (5) Heinz Lammerding, the Waffen SS general in command of the unit that committed the massacre, was captured by allied forces but never extradited to France and was sentenced to death in absentia by a Bordeaux military court in 1951.
  • (6) Assad will massacre the masses if we remain silent.
  • (7) The document is dated 19 days before the alleged massacre.
  • (8) The aim was to supplant the informal militias, known as the " shabiha ", who were often accused of massacres, with a more disciplined and better armed force.
  • (9) It traces his progress of degradation unhampered by constituted authority and concludes with his magnum opus--the greatest massacre of South Sea Islanders in the annals of the South Sea slave trade.
  • (10) Elisabeth Haukeland’s eldest son and daughter both survived the massacre, and they aren’t going back to Utøya.
  • (11) The Libya Quartet, which includes the Africa Union, the European Union and the Arab League, is likely to discuss the massacre of up to 140 civilians and soldiers at an airbase in southern Libya in one of the single most shocking incidents since the civil war started in 2011.
  • (12) Police investigating the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University massacre, which left 33 dead, mainly students, blamed Cho, a fourth-year English student who lived on the campus, for earlier incidents ranging from stalking women to setting fire to a dormitory.
  • (13) The Jedwabne massacre and Kaminski's line that "Jews should say sorry for killing Poles" during the second world war is by far the most important of the many contentious issues on this man.
  • (14) The people were free, the dictator was dead, a mooted massacre had been averted – and all this without any obvious boots on the ground.
  • (15) On Thursday, the attorney general, Loretta Lynch, had described the massacre as a “barbaric crime”, and said it was being looked at as a hate crime.
  • (16) Rory Kinnear is captivating as the journalist covering a massacre.
  • (17) "It is happening at such a pace that it's going to be a massacre here," he said.
  • (18) Even though I might be faced with nothing but a series of tragedies, I will still struggle, still show my opposition,” he said in a 1988 interview, before the Tiananmen Square massacre.
  • (19) Among the most serious charges he faced involved responsibility for the massacre of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in the enclave of Srebrenica in July 1995.
  • (20) The massacre was not committed by "the Poles" against "the Jews", but was a vile crime committed by specific individuals.