Usually means: Intense desire for violence, killing.
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  1. bloodlust: Merriam-Webster
  2. bloodlust: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bloodlust: Vocabulary.com
  4. Bloodlust, bloodlust: Wordnik
  5. bloodlust: Wiktionary
  6. bloodlust: Dictionary.com
  7. Bloodlust (Body Count album), Bloodlust (Supernatural), Bloodlust (comics), Bloodlust, Bloodlust: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. bloodlust: Rhymezone
  9. bloodlust: FreeDictionary.org
  10. bloodlust: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. bloodlust: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. bloodlust: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  A desire for bloodshed and carnage, often aroused in the heat of battle and leading to uncontrolled slaughter and torture.

Similar:
blood lust, bloodthirst, bloodletting, bloodfest, sanguinary, blood, blood and thunder, bloodshed, blood bath, bloodplay, more...

Opposite:
pacifism, nonviolence, compassion

Types:
anger, rage, fury, wrath, ire, hostility, spite, vindictiveness, malice, more...

Phrases:
Nocturnal Bloodlust, more...

Adjectives:
own, sheer, such, insatiable, pure, savage, same, general, frenzied, wanton, monstrous



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Similar:
blood lust, bloodthirst, bloodletting, bloodfest, sanguinary, blood, blood and thunder, bloodshed, blood bath, bloodplay, more...

Opposite:
pacifism, nonviolence, compassion

Types:
anger, rage, fury, wrath, ire, hostility, spite, vindictiveness, malice, more...

Phrases:
Nocturnal Bloodlust, more...

Adjectives:
own, sheer, such, insatiable, pure, savage, same, general, frenzied, wanton, monstrous



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