sanguinary

Involving bloodshed.

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

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

Eager to shed blood; bloodthirsty.

Passion […] makes us brutal and sanguinary.

"The defence set up for Mahomet is equally availing for every sanguinary and revengeful tyrant; […]"

Consisting of, covered with, or similar in appearance to blood.

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 […]

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.

A bloodthirsty person.

The plant common yarrow, or herba sanguinaria (Achillea millefolium).