MEANING
An intense appetite for bloodshed or violent killing.
Use it for
A killer seeking violence for its own sake; predation exceeding hunger; escalation after first bloodshedSeparate the desire to kill from the practical need to survive.
Words that belong together
- consumed by bloodlust
- feed bloodlust
- unchecked bloodlust
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Bloodlust kept the hunters moving after every carcass had been abandoned.
He mistook the creature's bloodlust for hunger.
The first killing seemed to awaken a bloodlust no command could restrain.
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Motivation toward violence, not ordinary hunger or a diagnosis. Literary or dramatic; literal creatures may connect it to feeding, but human use usually concerns killing. Usually uncountable in this sense; no routine plural. Orthographic compound variant: blood lust.
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