sanguinary   (Sound)

The adj sanguinary has 2 senses

• gory, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous, butcherly -- (accompanied by bloodshed; "this bitter and sanguinary war")


• bloodthirsty, bloody-minded, sanguinary -- (marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed; "bloody-minded tyrants"; "bloodthirsty yells"; "went after the collaborators with a sanguinary fury that drenched the land with blood"-G.W.Johnson)