slaughter vs bloodshed

slaughter and bloodshed both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
slaughter	Yes	No	Yes	No
bloodshed	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, bloodshed is a hyponym of slaughter; that is, bloodshed is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than slaughter:

Other hyponyms of slaughter include battue, bloodbath, bloodletting.

slaughter (noun)	bloodshed (noun)
the killing of animals (as for food)	indiscriminate slaughter
the savage and excessive killing of many people	the shedding of blood resulting in murder
a sound defeat

slaughter (verb)	bloodshed (verb)
kill a large number of people indiscriminately
kill (animals) usually for food consumption