MEANING
Marked by substantial bloodshed.
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- sanguinary conflict
- sanguinary battle
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The uprising ended in a sanguinary confrontation at the gate.
The chronicler described the campaign as needlessly sanguinary.
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Primary category: horror. Forms: Comparative: more sanguinary; superlative: most sanguinary. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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