Bloodshed
Bloodshed noun - The shedding of blood resulting in murder.
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Crime
Crime noun - Activities that are in violation of the laws of the state.
Bloodshed and crime are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Bloodshed" instead a noun "Crime".
Nearby Words: criminal, criminally
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Injustice: Gods Among Us (the prequel to the video game) takes place in an alternate universe where the Joker nuked Metropolis, causing Superman to declare a dictatorship over the entire Earth to (ideally) eliminate all further crime and bloodshed.
Source: Elseworld - Music that does not advocate violence, crime, warfare or any other form of bloodshed.
Source: Misaimed Fandom / Music -
Heroic Bloodshed: The series obviously takes up a lot of stylistic clues from Hong Kong Blood Opera movies, just like Noir took inspiration from European crime films and, of course, Film Noir.
Source: Anime / Madlax
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Crime and Bloodshed. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 02, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/bloodshed/crime
Bloodshed & Crime. N.p., 2016. Web. 02 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/bloodshed/crime>.
Crime or Bloodshed. 2016. Accessed August 02, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/bloodshed/crime.
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