bloodied

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blood·y

(blŭd′ē)

adj. blood·i·er, blood·i·est

1. Stained with blood.

2. Of, characteristic of, or containing blood.

3. Accompanied by or giving rise to bloodshed: a bloody fight.

4. Bloodthirsty.

5. Suggesting the color of blood; blood-red.

6. Chiefly British Slang Used as an intensive: "Everyone wants to have a convict in his bloody family tree" (Robert Hughes).

adv.

Chiefly British Slang Used as an intensive: bloody well right.

tr.v. blood·ied, blood·y·ing, blood·ies

1. To stain, spot, or color with or as if with blood.

2. To make bleed, as by injuring or wounding: The troops were bloodied in the skirmish.

blood′i·ly adv.

blood′i·ness n.

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bloodied

(ˈblʌdɪd)

adj

1. stained with or covered in blood

2. bloodied but unbowed wounded but not defeated

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