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   sanguinary

   /ˈsaŋɡwɪn(ə)ri/

   adjective

   • 1. involving or causing much bloodshed: archaic "they lost heavily in the sanguinary campaigns that followed"

   Word Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘relating to blood’): from Latin sanguinarius, from sanguis, sanguin- ‘blood’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. sanguinarily adverb
   • 2. sanguinariness noun

   Scrabble Points: 14

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