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[ adjective ] having or covered with or accompanied by blood

Examples

"a bloody nose" "your scarf is all bloody" "the effects will be violent and probably bloody" "a bloody fight"

Used in print

(Stephen Longstreet, Eagles Where I Walk....)

Its groin was bloody .

(Marvin Schiller, "The Sheep's in the Meadow,"...)

The night after reading her letter about her surgeon uncle - it must have been late in September - I had a vision of myself returned in ragged uniform from The Front , nearly dying , my head bandaged and bloody , and Jessica bending over me , the power of her love bringing me back to life .

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[ adverb ] (intensifier) "you are bloody right"

Synonyms

damn all-fired

Examples

"Why are you so all-fired aggressive?"

3
[ adjective ] (used of persons) informal intensifiers

Examples

"what a bally (or blinking) nuisance" "a bloody fool" "a crashing bore" "you flaming idiot"

Related terms

unmitigated

4
[ adverb ] extremely

Synonyms

damn all-fired

Examples

"you are bloody right" "Why are you so all-fired aggressive?"

Related terms

intensifier

5
[ verb ] cover with blood

Examples

"bloody your hands"

Related terms

cover

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