What's the difference between bloodbath and upset?

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.

Upset


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To set up; to put upright.
  • (v. t.) To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.
  • (v. t.) To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
  • (v. t.) To overturn, overthrow, or overset; as, to upset a carriage; to upset an argument.
  • (v. t.) To disturb the self-possession of; to disorder the nerves of; to make ill; as, the fright upset her.
  • (v. i.) To become upset.
  • (a.) Set up; fixed; determined; -- used chiefly or only in the phrase upset price; that is, the price fixed upon as the minimum for property offered in a public sale, or, in an auction, the price at which property is set up or started by the auctioneer, and the lowest price at which it will be sold.
  • (n.) The act of upsetting, or the state of being upset; an overturn; as, the wagon had an upset.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A series of hierarchical multiple regressions revealed the effects of Surgency, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Intellect on evoking upset in spouses through condescension (e.g., treating spouse as stupid or inferior), possessiveness (demanding too much time and attention), abuse (slapping spouse), unfaithfulness (having sex with others), inconsiderateness (leaving toilet seat up), moodiness (crying a lot), alcohol abuse (drinking too much alcohol), emotional constriction (hiding emotions to act tough), and self-centeredness (acting selfishly).
  • (2) Mean run time and total ST time were faster with CE (by 1.4 and 1.2 min) although not significantly different (P less than 0.06 and P less than 0.10) from P. Subjects reported no significant difference in nausea, fullness, or stomach upset with CE compared to P. General physiological responses were similar for each drink during 2 h of multi-modal exercise in the heat; however, blood glucose, carbohydrate utilization, and exercise intensity at the end of a ST may be increased with CE fluid replacement.
  • (3) Treatment is therefore often palliative, and endoscopic modalities cause considerably less general upset to the patient than surgery, radiotherapy or chemotherapy.
  • (4) We interpreted these results within an attributional framework that emphasizes the salience of upsetting events within a social network.
  • (5) She stayed calm during the upsetting search that led to Cynthia, who turned out to be flaky, chain-smoking and white (played by Brenda Blethyn).
  • (6) Trump might say that is what he wants to happen but for us, that’s deeply upsetting,” says Moore, who sits on the board of the Center Against Sexual and Family Violence and expects the case to have a chilling effect on reports of abuse.
  • (7) We’re all very upset right now,” said Daniel Ray, 24, in his third year of the divinity master’s degree program.
  • (8) Al-Jazeera's coverage has also upset the authorities.
  • (9) Our observations lead us to think that effectively, an event during which an important emotional state is induced, by upsetting the immune equilibrium, could more predispose a child (in this case the first born) to the action of pathogens.
  • (10) The interview was a friendly, intense discussion about upsetting situations the subject faced.
  • (11) A fired-up Lleyton Hewitt just fell short in his bid to steer Australia to an upset victory in their Davis Cup doubles showdown with the United States.
  • (12) She [Plath] was very worried about it because she thought it was going to upset her mother.
  • (13) Diagnostic characteristics of RSDS are: spontaneous burning pain, hyperalgesia, vasomotor disturbances, exacerbations by emotional upset, occurrence either spontaneously or after minor injury, occasional spontaneous resolution, extension to other body parts, and relief by sympathetic denervation.
  • (14) Plenty of people felt embarrassed, upset, outraged or betrayed by the Goncourts' record of things they had said or had said about them.
  • (15) The territory is actualy reached by deep demographic and social upsettings and chemiotherapy used alone is not enough efficient to obtain a definitive decrease of the endemy or even to avoid, for a long time, a new increase.
  • (16) The amount he is being paid for three short columns a week would “only get you sandal wearers all upset” if revealed, he says.
  • (17) The CPS doesn't just have to consider the public interest in prosecuting individual cases, but also the more general public interest in being able to say potentially upsetting things without fear of prosecution.
  • (18) As with other selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), the most common side effect is gastrointestinal upset, especially nausea.
  • (19) It's possible that it upsets her to think about the past, or perhaps, these days, she saves her animation for the times when she is holding a microphone and standing in front of a swollen, angry crowd.
  • (20) The conclusion from this, the first reported series on adjuvant Tamoxifen therapy for MBC, is that significant improvement in disease-free survival can be achieved with minimal upset to the patients.