0 If someone kills in cold blood, they kill in a way that seems especially cruel because it seems to show no emotion. --
1 intentionally and without emotion: --
Maybe a few others escaped in the same way, but all the rest were murdered in cold blood.
It would be like a murder in cold blood if I were to send you after him.
Innocent, unarmed men, who knew nothing of what was to happen, were butchered in cold blood without the slightest notice.
I would rather lose my commission than run the risk of being massacred in cold blood.