| 单词 | bloodfest |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbloodfest bloodfest n. [ < main sense + fest n.] originally U.S. (a) an occasion of extended or unrestrained violence and bloodshed; = blood feast n. 1; (b) a novel, film, etc., depicting violence and bloodshed, esp. unsparingly or graphically. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [noun] > instance of slaughter1483 Sicilian Vespers1586 plot of the long knivesa1604 blood feast?1611 Parisian matins1614 Parisian massacre1657 bloodbath1814 Roman holiday1818 holocaust1833 bath of blood1882 pogrom1889 bloodfest1907 blood purge1959 1907 Bismarck (N. Dakota) Daily Tribune 11 Aug. 1/1 (heading) Men haste to the blood fest. 1938 N.Y. Times 23 Apr. 18/2 He [sc. the play's scene designer] has begun the current blood-fest with a vivid outdoor sketch of a library lion with the topless towers of Fifth Avenue in the background. 1982 Newsweek (Nexis) 6 Sept. 75 Director Steve Miner's blood fest is the antithesis of Kleiser's paean to unfettered sexuality. 2005 Morning Star (Nexis) 9 July This is the man who..devised the mendacious justification for the bloodfest in Iraq and the notion of ‘endless war’. 2008 Esquire Feb. 65/1 It is certainly the most psychologically alert bloodfest since The Silence Of The Lambs. < as lemmas |
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