• (British) IPA: /ˈsæŋɡwɪnəɹi/
• (America) IPA: /ˈsæŋɡwɪneɹi/

sanguinary

1. (of an event) Involving bloodshed.

   Synonyms: bloody, gory

   • 1625, Francis Bacon, "Unity in Religion" (Google preview ↗):

     We may not propagate religion by wars, or by sanguinary persecutions to force consciences.

   • 1887, Henry Rider Haggard, Allan Quatermain, Chapter XIII:

     " […] every one of which took its rise from some noble family that succeeded in grasping the purple after a sanguinary struggle."

2. (of a person) Eager to shed blood; bloodthirsty.

   Synonyms: bloodthirsty, bloody-minded, butcherous, slaughterous

   • circa 1730 William Broome:

     Passion […] makes us brutal and sanguinary.

3. (of an object) Consisting of, covered with, or similar in appearance to blood.

   Synonyms: bloodsoaked, bloody, gory

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Six Volumes, volume (please specify ), London: Printed by A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292 ↗:

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     I was once, I remember, called to a patient who had received a violent contusion in his tibia, by which the exterior cutis was lacerated, so that there was a profuse sanguinary discharge […]

   • 1913, H. G. Wells, Little Wars, Section VI:

     Here is the premeditation, the thrill, the strain of accumulating victory or disaster—and no smashed nor sanguinary bodies […] , that we who are old enough to remember a real modern war know to be the reality of belligerence.

   • 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 117):

     We reached the Point just as a flood of sunset light was dripping from the heavens, staining the lagoon an ominous, sanguinary hue.

• Portuguese: sanguinário

• Portuguese: sanguinário
• Spanish: sanguinario

• French: sanguin

sanguinary (plural sanguinaries)

1. A bloodthirsty person.
2. The plant common yarrow, or herba sanguinaria (Achillea millefolium).