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BLOODY (bloodied, bloodier, bloodiest)

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IPA (US): 

Irregular inflected forms: bloodied  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation, bloodier  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation, bloodiest  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 Dictionary entry overview: What does bloody mean? 

BLOODY (adjective)
  The adjective BLOODY has 2 senses:

1. having or covered with or accompanied by bloodplay

2. informal intensifiersplay

  Familiarity information: BLOODY used as an adjective is rare.


BLOODY (verb)
  The verb BLOODY has 1 sense:

1. cover with bloodplay

  Familiarity information: BLOODY used as a verb is very rare.


BLOODY (adverb)
  The adverb BLOODY has 1 sense:

1. extremelyplay

  Familiarity information: BLOODY used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BLOODY (adjective)

 Declension: comparative and superlative 
Comparative: bloodier  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Superlative: bloodiest  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Having or covered with or accompanied by blood

Context example:

a bloody fight

Similar:

blood-filled (containing blood)

bloodstained; gory (covered with blood)

bloodsucking (drawing blood from the body of another)

bloodthirsty; bloody-minded; sanguinary (marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed)

crimson; red; violent (characterized by violence or bloodshed)

homicidal; murderous (characteristic of or capable of or having a tendency toward killing another human being)

butcherly; gory; sanguinary; sanguineous; slaughterous (accompanied by bloodshed)

internecine (characterized by bloodshed and carnage for both sides)

Also:

merciless; unmerciful (having or showing no mercy)

Antonym:

bloodless (free from blood or bloodshed)

Derivation:

blood (the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets)

bloodiness (a disposition to shed blood)

bloodiness (the state of being bloody)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Informal intensifiers

Synonyms:

bally; blinking; bloody; blooming; crashing; flaming; fucking

Context example:

you flaming idiot

Similar:

unmitigated (not diminished or moderated in intensity or severity; sometimes used as an intensifier)


BLOODY (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they bloody  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it bloodies  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: bloodied  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: bloodied  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: bloodying  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Cover with blood

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

bloody your hands

Hypernyms (to "bloody" is one way to...):

cover; spread over (form a cover over)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something


BLOODY (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Extremely

Synonyms:

all-fired; all-firedly; bloody; damn

Context example:

Why are you so all-fired aggressive?

Domain usage:

intensifier; intensive (a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies)


 Context examples 


Signs and symptoms include increased frequency of urination, pain or burning during urination, fever, cloudy or bloody urine, and suprapubic pain.

(Acute Cystitis, NCI Thesaurus)

Symptoms include abdominal pain, bloody diarrhoea, weight loss and fatigue.

(New prognostic test could enable personalised treatment of inflammatory bowel disease, University of Cambridge)

Other symptoms include swollen abdomen, vomiting, bloody diarrhea, gas, lack of energy, and trouble gaining weight.

(Aganglionic megacolon, NCI Dictionary)

The parasite may cause colitis which is manifested with bloody diarrheas, abdominal pain, nausea and fever.

(Amebiasis, NCI Thesaurus)

Patients with gastrointestinal infection present with nausea, vomiting and bloody diarrhea.

(Anthrax, NCI Thesaurus)

You shall suffer for it—we will punish you by a bloody war.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Neither are any wars so furious and bloody, or of so long a continuance, as those occasioned by difference in opinion, especially if it be in things indifferent.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The aƫrial battle was over, and Thomas Mugridge, whining and gibbering, his mouth flecked with bloody foam, was brought down to deck.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

C. curvus, formerly known as Wolinella curva, is a rare pathogen associated with cases of bloody and Brainerd's diarrhea.

(Campylobacter curvus, NCI Thesaurus)

The worst type of E. coli causes bloody diarrhea, and can sometimes cause kidney failure and even death.

(E. Coli Infections, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)



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