Blood Lustとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA: /ˈblʌdˌlʌst/

名詞

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.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     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.

同意語

• ferocity
• savagery
• barbarism
• bloodthirst

派生語

• bloodlusted