bloodiness

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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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Noun	1.	bloodiness - the state of being bloody physical condition, physiological condition, physiological state - the condition or state of the body or bodily functions
	2.	bloodiness - a disposition to shed blood bloodthirstiness disposition, temperament - your usual mood; "he has a happy disposition"

Translations

bloodiness

[ˈblʌdɪnɪs] N (lit) → lo sangriento
the bloodiness of his deeds → el carácter sangriento de sus actos

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

bloodiness

(of sight, war etc) → Blutigkeit f

(inf, = horribleness) → Grässlichkeit f, → Abscheulichkeit f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

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