Bloody

/ˈblʌ.diː/ · adjective

Meaning

Covered in blood..

Definitions by Sense

1. Covered in blood.
2. Characterised by bloodshed.
3. (informal, British, Ireland, Commonwealth, Hawaii, mildly vulgar) Used as an intensifier.
4. (dated) Badly behaved; unpleasant; beastly.
5. (informal, Australia, British, India, Ireland, Newfoundland, New Zealand, South Africa, mildly vulgar) Used to express anger, annoyance, or shock, or for emphasis.
6. (transitive) To stain with blood.
7. (transitive) To draw blood from (one's opponent) in a fight.
8. (transitive) To demonstrably harm (the cause of an opponent).

Example Sentences

All that remained of his right hand after the accident was a bloody stump.

And, as she fled, her mantle she did fall, / Which Lion vile with bloody mouth did stain.

O Antony! Begge not your death of vs: / Though now we muſt appeare bloody and cruell, / As by our hands, and this our preſent Acte / You ſee we do: Yet ſee you but our hands, / And this, the bleeding buſineſſe they haue done:

There have been bloody battles between the two tribes.

Some bloody paſſion ſhakes your very Frame:

I had therefore been, until now, out of the way of the bloody scenes that often occurred on the plantation.

The story of Elizabeth Bathory is one of the bloodiest in history.

These disaffected diplomats said they would like to see the US threaten future arms sales to Israel to help curtail the bloody fighting, but the proposed F-15 and precision-guided munitions sales indicate that the administration is not planning to restrict military assistance any time soon.

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Word Forms

• bloodier
• bloodiest
• bloudy
• bl**dy
• more bloody
• most bloody
• bloodies
• bloodying
• bloodied

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