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blood
  1. A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow.
  2. A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to marriage or adoption (see blood relative, blood relation, by blood).
  3. (historical) One of the four humours in the human body.
  4. (medicine) A blood test or blood sample.
  5. The sap or juice which flows in or from plants.
  6. (obsolete) The juice of anything, especially if red.
  7. (obsolete) Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions.
  8. (obsolete) A lively, showy man; a rake; a dandy.
  9. Alternative letter-case form of Blood (member of a certain gang).
  10. Synonyms:
  11. Examples:
    1. “An artery will carry more blood compared to a vein or capillary.”
      “Although his parents come from Jamaica, Jimmy says he is of Chinese blood.”
      “Blood is thicker than water, but is love thicker than blood?”
bleeder
  1. A person who is easily made to bleed, or who bleeds in unusually large amounts, particularly a hemophiliac.
  2. (surgery) A blood vessel that requires cauterization etc. to stop it from bleeding during surgery.
  3. Anything that saps a resource produced by something else.
  4. A valve designed to release a small amount of excess pressure from a system.
  5. (derogatory) A troublesome fellow; a blighter.
  6. A person who play a lot to a video game.
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “The dog has turned into a vicious little bleeder and I'm out of friends right about now.”
      “As any football manager will tell you, if you do not do what needs doing yourself, no other bleeder will do it.”
      “In my day, when a footballer went six feet in the air it's because he was propelled there by some sadistic bleeder of a full-back.”
bloodbath
  1. Indiscriminate killing or slaughter, a massacre.
  2. (sports) An aggressive or very violent contest or confrontation.
  3. (figuratively) An upset (as of a game with unexpected results, or a national presidential convention) or heavy defeat.
  4. (figuratively, business) A large financial loss or massive layoff brought about by negative economic conditions.
  5. A bath taken in warm blood used as a restorative or medical treatment.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “Now the president said that he was leaving this country to avoid a bloodbath.”
      “A wacky, black-comic interlude has morphed with appalling speed into a potential bloodbath.”
      “Revolution was not to be encouraged, though, and the yeomanry turned protest into a bloodbath at Peterloo.”
bloodshed
  1. The shedding or spilling of blood.
  2. A slaughter; destruction of life, notably on a large scale.
  3. (obsolete) The shedding of one's own blood; specifically, the death of Christ.
  4. (obsolete) A bloodshot condition or appearance; an effusion of blood in the eye.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “Or will it deepen old wounds, increase sectarian tension, and fuel more bloodshed?”
      “Violence is rare, but once started often escalates quickly to bloodshed and serious injury.”
      “But I couldn't begin to weigh the potential bloodshed against the potential benefits.”
bloodsucker
  1. An animal that drinks the blood of others, especially by sucking blood through a puncture wound; a hemovore.
  2. (by extension) Any parasite.
  3. (by extension) One who attempts to take as much from others as possible; a leech.
  4. A vampire.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “She portrayed herself as a generous friend, but in reality, she was a bloodsucker who shamelessly took advantage of everyone's kindness.”
      “The bloodsucker manipulated his friends into investing money in a fictitious business scheme.”
      “In the bloodsucker scheme, Congressmen, mayors and the ambulance vendor all shared in the bounty.”
bloodletting
  1. The archaic practice of treating illness by removing some blood, believed to be tainted, from the stricken person.
  2. (by extension) the diminishment of any resource with the hope that this will lead to a positive effect.
  3. A circumstance such as a battle where a large amount of blood is likely to be spilled through violence.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “After the controversial decision was announced, the political debate turned into a bloodletting, with both sides fiercely clashing over their opposing viewpoints.”
bleed
  1. An incident of bleeding, as in haemophilia.
  2. (printing) A narrow edge around a page layout, to be printed but cut off afterwards (added to allow for slight misalignment, especially with pictures that should run to the edge of the finished sheet).
  3. (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “She tore her gown and wrapped it around his wound to try to stem the bleed.”
bloodmeal
  1. The stomach contents of a bloodsucking insect (used especially to study the spread of infections)
  2. A fertilizer, rich in nitrogen, made from dried blood
bloodstroke
  1. (medicine) Loss of sensation and motion from hemorrhage or congestion in the brain.
  2. A stroke or blow with a weapon that draws blood.
  3. Examples:
    1. “All other measures relative to the bloodstroke have an equal reference to those cases where the patient.”
      “Cleaving the air with bloodstroke upon bloodstroke, Jarl made his bitter steel sing.”
bleeding
  1. The flow or loss of blood from a damaged blood vessel.
  2. (medicine) bloodletting
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Last week, it was reported that a 50-year old Motorhead fan had suffered from bleeding in the brain as a result of headbanging during one of the band's gigs.”
blooder
  1. A person or creature which draws blood
  2. A bloodsucker
bloodlands
  1. A region comprising modern-day Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and the Baltic states, where the 20th-century regimes of Stalin and Hitler interacted to cause significant suffering and bloodshed.
bloodlust
  1. A desire for bloodshed and carnage, often aroused in the heat of battle and leading to uncontrolled slaughter and torture.
  2. Examples:
    1. “She had grown up hating her husband's bloodlust, and no one doubted murder when he shot her during one of his hunting trips.”
      “Nothing will sate their bloodlust and hatred other than to kill everyone of us or at least die trying.”
      “You look like a cat sighting a bird, all aquiver with bloodlust. Cool your temper.”
bloodstream
  1. The flow of blood through the circulatory system of an animal
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “They solubilize dietary lipids facilitating their hydrolysis by lipases and their absorption into the bloodstream.”
      “But milk appeared to inhibit the antioxidant potential of the flavonoids, reducing their absorption into the bloodstream.”
      “The relatively quick absorption into the bloodstream enables a rapid headache response.”
bloodplay
  1. (BDSM) Sexual activity in which a participant is deliberately cut so as to release blood.
bloodletter
  1. One who performs bloodletting (the removal of blood in the hope of curing illness).
  2. Examples:
    1. “Michael O'Hara's surehanded script and Michael Horowitz's fine direction spell out the brief career of remorseless bloodletter Starkweather.”
bloodguilt
  1. guilt of wrongfully causing death or shedding blood
  2. Examples:
    1. “Though I have slain many on this day, it is for your life that I will claim bloodguilt.”
      “It wasn't required for one to completely seclude themselves when they took bloodguilt, they only needed to make it evident wherever they went.”
      “But Greenberg's emphasis on bloodguilt can give his book a religious impatience, however secularized.”
bloodfest
  1. (informal) A bloodbath; anything involving much shedding of blood.
bloodshedder
  1. One who sheds blood; a murderer.
bloodguiltiness
  1. Guilt of having shed blood or killed someone.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Observe that the animals also have bloodguiltiness, and that they shall also suffer the same penalty as man.”
      “How then can you possibly throw off bloodguiltiness, with the light which you now enjoy?”
      “All concerned in Ralegh's trial and conviction have a heavy burden of bloodguiltiness to bear.”
bloodthirst
bloodthirstiness
  1. The characteristic of being bloodthirsty.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Reciprocity when it comes to loss is not a justification for bloodthirstiness but rather a demand for exactness.”
      “What I found was that many who advocated invasion, colonisation and even mass murder didn't necessarily do so from an inherent bloodthirstiness.”
      “But for those who judge the effectiveness of the law by its bloodthirstiness, clearly the government is way out of step.”
bloodedness
  1. (in combination) The quality of having blood of a particular kind.
bloodlessness
  1. The characteristic of being bloodless.
  2. Examples:
    1. “It's a chilling scene, and, despite its bloodlessness, is difficult to watch.”
      “The courthouse auctions have a bloodlessness that belies their impact on people's lives.”
      “Her bloodlessness functions at times as delicacy here, especially in the awkward courtship scenes, but her acting always seems like play-acting to me.”
bloodstaining
  1. The presence of stains of blood.
bloodthirster
  1. A person who is bloodthirsty.
bled
  1. (in parts of French North Africa) Hinterland, field.
bloodhead
  1. In China, a seller of blood.
bloodshedding
  1. The act of shedding blood.
bloodiness
  1. The characteristic of being bloody.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The relentless violence and excessive bloodiness have been widely commented on.”
      “The sheer bloodiness of the war and its myriad intimate losses demanded, for the living, some kind of greater meaning.”
      “But the worst tragedy of the entire decade has been the bloodiness of Yugoslavia's break-up and the special horror of Bosnia.”
bloodloss
  1. (pathology) loss of blood
bloody
bloode
  1. Archaic form of blood.
blooding
  1. (medicine) A bleeding.
bloodsheddings
  1. plural of bloodshedding
bloodthirsters
  1. plural of bloodthirster
bloodshedders
  1. plural of bloodshedder
bloodlettings
bloodsuckers
  1. plural of bloodsucker
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “In fact, the only interruption to my singing was when I'd slap my arm or thigh or back trying to swat one of the evil bloodsuckers.”
      “The company ships about 30,000 of the bloodsuckers a year to doctors who specialize in reattaching severed fingers, ears, and other body parts.”
      “Stuck in this miserable world with bloodsuckers and smelly lushes with guns?”
bloodthirsts
  1. plural of bloodthirst
bloodletters
  1. plural of bloodletter
bloodstreams
bloodinesses
bloodbaths
  1. plural of bloodbath
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Rather, the old testament looks like their text, with its vengeful God, its tribal bloodbaths and its focus on the Israelites.”
      “It may dovetail with comedy, with stysized bloodbaths and gore, with the thriller and morality-play, but it is not beholden to any of them.”
      “Often these TV events are watered down versions of what should be premium bloodbaths.”
bloodmeals
  1. plural of bloodmeal
bloodsheds
bloodfests
  1. plural of bloodfest
bloodheads
  1. plural of bloodhead
bloodlusts
  1. plural of bloodlust
bleedings
  1. plural of bleeding
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleedings at the pores, with dissolution.”
      “In one year, Louis XIII received 215 doses of purgatives, 212 enemas and 47 bleedings!”
      “The main health problems include hypertension, preeclampsia-eclampsia, anemia and bleedings and spontaneous abortus.”
bloodings
  1. plural of blooding
bleeders
  1. plural of bleeder
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “If we let too many of the bleeders in 'ere, they'll all be on the first train back to London.”
      “When used in nonsave situations, Escobar seemed frustrated by bleeps, infield-in bleeders and an inability to put hitters away with two strikes.”
      “I want to see 10,000 of the little bleeders in the trench, dead, by 1700 hours at the latest.”
bloodes
  1. plural of bloode
bloodies
bloods
bleds
  1. plural of bled
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