English > bloody: 4 senses > adjective 1Meaning | Having or covered with or accompanied by blood. |
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Examples | - "a bloody nose"
- "your scarf is all bloody"
- "the effects will be violent and probably bloody"
- "a bloody fight"
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Narrower | blood-filled | Containing blood |
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bloodstained, gory | Covered with blood |
bloodsucking | Drawing blood from the body of another |
bloodthirsty, bloody-minded, sanguinary | marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed |
crimson, red, violent | Characterized by violence or bloodshed |
gory, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous, butcherly | Accompanied by bloodshed |
homicidal, murderous | characteristic of or capable / capable of or having a tendency toward killing another human being |
internecine | Characterized by bloodshed and carnage for both sides |
See also | merciless, unmerciful | Having or showing no mercy |
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Opposite | bloodless | Free from blood or bloodshed |
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Spanish | cruento, sangriento, sanguinolento |
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Catalan | sangonent, sangonós |
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Nouns | blood | the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets |
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bloodiness | a disposition to shed blood |
bloodiness | the state of being bloody |
Adverbs | bloodily | involving a great bloodshed |
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