Bloodthirsty; cruel; merciless. rare.

Of or pertaining to bloodshed; giving rise to bloodshed; bloodthirsty, sanguinary. Now rare.

Blood-sucking; †also figurative bloodthirsty, cruel.

Bloodthirsty; delighting in carnage.

= sanguinary, adj. 2.

Sanguinary.

Bloodthirsty; attended by bloodshed; cruel, merciless. Obsolete.

Causing or delighting in bloodshed; bloody, sanguinary. Now poetic or rhetorical.

(a) that is as hot as blood; being at or brought to blood temperature (literal and figurative); (b) characterized by bloodlust; bloodthirsty.

In attributive use. That sheds or has shed blood; bloody, sanguinary. Now archaic.

Of a person: bloodthirsty, violent; = red-handed, adj. 1b. rare.

Insanely desirous of killing; murderous.

Constructions. to shoot to kill (cf. kill, v. 6c), implying the desire or intention to kill, rather than frighten or wound, a living target. Also s…