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bloody
CIDE DICTIONARY
bloody, a. [AS. bl.].
- Containing or resembling blood; of the nature of blood; as, bloody excretions; bloody sweat. [1913 Webster]
- Smeared or stained with blood; as, bloody hands; a bloody handkerchief. [1913 Webster]
- Given, or tending, to the shedding of blood; having a cruel, savage disposition; murderous; cruel. [1913 Webster]"Some bloody passion shakes your very frame." [1913 Webster]
- Attended with, or involving, bloodshed; sanguinary; esp., marked by great slaughter or cruelty; as, a bloody battle. [1913 Webster]
- Infamous; contemptible; -- variously used for mere emphasis or as a low epithet. Thackeray. [1913 Webster]
bloody, v. t.
To stain with blood. Overbury. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
bloody, adj., adv., & v.
--adj. (bloodier, bloodiest)
1 a of or like blood. b running or smeared with blood (bloody bandage).
2 a involving, loving, or resulting from bloodshed (bloody battle). b sanguinary; cruel (bloody butcher).
3 coarse sl. expressing annoyance or antipathy, or as an intensive (a bloody shame; a bloody sight better; not a bloody chocolate left).
4 red.
--adv. coarse sl. as an intensive (a bloody good job; I'll bloody thump him).
--v.tr. (-ies, -ied) make bloody; stain with blood.
--adj. (bloodier, bloodiest)
1 a of or like blood. b running or smeared with blood (bloody bandage).
2 a involving, loving, or resulting from bloodshed (bloody battle). b sanguinary; cruel (bloody butcher).
3 coarse sl. expressing annoyance or antipathy, or as an intensive (a bloody shame; a bloody sight better; not a bloody chocolate left).
4 red.
--adv. coarse sl. as an intensive (a bloody good job; I'll bloody thump him).
--v.tr. (-ies, -ied) make bloody; stain with blood.
Idiom
bloody hand Heraldry the armorial device of a baronet. Bloody Mary a drink composed of vodka and tomato juice. bloody-minded colloq. deliberately uncooperative. bloody-mindedly colloq. in a perverse or uncooperative manner. bloody-mindedness colloq. perversity, contrariness.
Derivative
bloodily adv. bloodiness n.
Etymology
OE blodig (as BLOOD, -Y(1))
THESAURUS
bloody
Draconian, Tartarean, abrade, accursed, aggressive, agonize, animal, antagonistic, anthropophagous, atrocious, barbaric, barbarous, bark, battling, beastly, bellicose, belligerent, bestial, bleed, bleeding, blemish, blood-colored, blood-spattered, bloodstain, bloodstained, bloodthirsty, bloody-minded, bloody-red, blooming, break, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish, burn, cannibalistic, chafe, chauvinist, chauvinistic, check, chip, chylifactive, chylifactory, chylific, claw, combative, complete, consummate, contentious, convulse, crack, craze, crucify, cruel, cruel-hearted, cursed, cussed, cut, cutthroat, damn, damnable, damned, dashed, demoniac, demoniacal, devilish, diabolic, ecchymose, ecchymosed, enemy, ensanguine, ensanguined, excruciate, execrable, fell, feral, ferine, ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, fighting, fracture, fray, frazzle, fret, full of fight, gall, gash, goddamn, goddamned, gory, grim, gross, harrow, hawkish, hellish, hemorrhage, hemorrhaging, homicidal, hostile, humoral, hurt, ichorous, impale, incise, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, inimical, injure, jingo, jingoish, jingoist, jingoistic, kill by inches, kill-crazy, lacerate, lachrymal, lacrimatory, lancinate, lose blood, macerate, maim, make mincemeat of, malign, malignant, martial, martyr, martyrize, maul, merciless, militant, militaristic, military, murdering, murderous, mutilate, noncivilized, offensive, out-and-out, phlegmy, pierce, pitiless, pugnacious, puncture, punish, purulent, pussy, quarrelsome, rack, rank, red-handed, rend, rheumy, rip, ruddy, run, rupture, ruthless, saber-rattling, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguine, sanguineous, sanious, satanic, savage, scald, scarify, scorch, scotch, scrape, scrappy, scratch, scuff, self-destructive, serous, sharkish, shed blood, skin, slash, slaughterous, slavering, slit, soldierlike, soldierly, spill blood, sprain, stab, stick, strain, subhuman, suicidal, suppurated, suppurating, suppurative, tameless, tear, tearlike, torment, torture, traumatize, trigger-happy, truculent, unchristian, uncivilized, unfriendly, ungentle, unhuman, unmitigated, unpacific, unpeaceable, unpeaceful, untamed, vicious, warlike, warmongering, warring, wild, wolfish, wound, wrench, wringROGET THESAURUS
bloody
Uncleanness
N uncleanness, impurity, immundity, immundicity, impurity, defilement, contamination, defoedation, soilure, soiliness, abomination, leaven, taint, tainture, fetor, decay, putrescence, putrefaction, corruption, mold, must, mildew, dry rot, mucor, rubigo, slovenry, slovenliness, squalor, dowdy, drab, slut, malkin, slattern, sloven, slammerkin, slammock, slummock, scrub, draggle-tail, mudlark, dust-man, sweep, beast, dirt, filth, soil, slop, dust, cobweb, flue, smoke, soot, smudge, smut, grit, grime, raff, sossle, sozzle, sordes, dregs, grounds, lees, argol, sediment, settlement heeltap, dross, drossiness, mother, precipitate, scoriae, ashes, cinders, recrement, slag, scum, froth, hogwash, ditchwater, dishwater, bilgewater, rinsings, cheeseparings, sweepings, offscourings, outscourings, off scum, caput mortuum, residuum, sprue, fecula, clinker, draff, scurf, scurfiness, exuviae, morphea, fur, furfur, dandruff, tartar, riffraff, vermin, louse, flea, bug, chinch, mud, mire, quagmire, alluvium, silt, sludge, slime, slush, slosh, sposh, spawn, offal, gurry, lientery, garbage, carrion, excreta, slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria, faeces, feces, excrement, ordure, dung, crap, shit, sewage, sewerage, muck, coprolite, guano, manure, compost, dunghill, colluvies, mixen, midden, bog, laystall, sink, privy, jakes, toilet, john, head, cess, cesspool, sump, sough, cloaca, latrines, drain, sewer, common sewer, Cloacina, dust hole, sty, pigsty, lair, den, Augean stable, sink of corruption, slum, rookery, dirty, filthy, grimy, unclean, impure, soiled, not to be handled with kid gloves, dusty, snuffy, smutty, sooty, smoky, thick, turbid, dreggy, slimy, mussy, slovenly, untidy, messy, uncleanly, unkempt, sluttish, dowdy, draggle-tailed, uncombed, unscoured, unswept, unwiped, unwashed, unstrained, unpurified, squalid, lutose, slammocky, slummocky, sozzly, nasty, coarse, foul, offensive, abominable, beastly, reeky, reechy, fetid, decayed, moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid, rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral, lentiginous, touched, fusty, effete, reasty, rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty, putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied, saprogenic, saprogenous, purulent, carious, peccant, fecal, feculent, stercoraceous, excrementitious, scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous, gory, bloody, rotting, rotten as a pear, rotten as cheese, crapulous, gross, fimetarious, fimicolous, they that touch pitch will be defiled.Killing
N killing, homicide, manslaughter, murder, assassination, trucidation, iccusion, effusion of blood, blood, blood shed, gore, slaughter, carnage, butchery, battue, massacre, fusillade, noyade, thuggery, Thuggism, deathblow, finishing stroke, coup de grace, quietus, execution, judicial murder, martyrdom, butcher, slayer, murderer, Cain, assassin, terrorist, cutthroat, garroter, bravo, Thug, Moloch, matador, sabreur, guet-a-pens, gallows, executioner, man-eater, apache, hatchet man, highbinder, regicide, parricide, matricide, fratricide, infanticide, feticide, foeticide, uxoricide, vaticide, suicide, felo de se, hara-kiri, suttee, Juggernath, immolation, auto da fe, holocaust, suffocation, strangulation, garrote, hanging, lapidation, deadly weapon, Aceldama, slaughtering, phthisozoics, sport, sporting, the chase, venery, hunting, coursing, shooting, fishing, pig- sticking, sportsman, huntsman, fisherman, hunter, Nimrod, slaughterhouse, meat packing plant, shambles, abattoir, fatal accident, violent death, casualty, killing, murderous, slaughterous, sanguinary, sanguinolent, blood stained, blood thirsty, homicidal, red handed, bloody, bloody minded, ensanguined, gory, thuggish, mortal, fatal, lethal, dead, deadly, mortiferous, lethiferous, unhealthy internecine, suicidal, sporting, piscatorial, piscatory, in at the death, assassination has never changed the history of the.Also see definition of "bloody" in Bible Study Dictionaries
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