English > bloody: 4 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | 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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