Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bloodthirsty"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bloodthirsty \Blood"thirst`y\, a.
Eager to shed blood; cruel; sanguinary; murderous. --
{Blood"thirst`i*ness} (?), n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
bloodthirsty
adj : 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 [syn: {bloody-minded},
{sanguinary}]
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