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blood lust

blood lust is the alternative spelling of bloodlust.

Meaning of bloodlust

Noun

bloodlust (countable and uncountable, plural bloodlusts)

  1. A desire for bloodshed and carnage, often aroused in the heat of battle and leading to uncontrolled slaughter and torture.
    • Yet the blood lust was on me now. I found myself on my feet emptying one magazine, then the other, clicking open the breech to re-load, snapping it to again, while cheering and yelling with pure ferocity and joy of slaughter as I did so.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

Forms of blood lust

pluralblood lusts

Questions about blood lust

What is blood lust the alternative spelling of?
Blood lust is the alternative spelling of bloodlust.

Words near blood lust in the dictionary

  1. blood lilies
  2. blood lily
  3. blood lime
  4. blood limes
  5. blood loss
  6. blood lust
  7. blood lusts
  8. blood mage
  9. blood mages
  10. blood money
  11. blood moon

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