bloody
IPA: bɫˈʌdi
noun
- (informal) bloody mary
verb
- (transitive) To stain with blood.
- (transitive) To draw blood from (one's opponent) in a fight.
- (transitive) To demonstrably harm (the cause of an opponent).
adjective
- Covered in blood.
- Characterised by bloodshed.
- (informal, Britain, Ireland, Newfoundland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Hawaii, mildly vulgar) Used as an intensifier.
- (dated) Badly behaved; unpleasant; beastly.
adverb
- (informal, Britain, Ireland, Newfoundland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, mildly vulgar) Used to express anger, annoyance, shock, or for emphasis.
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Examples of "bloody" in Sentences
- I'm in the middle of a bloody overdose.
- Bloody terror became the order of the day.
- The long and bloody war in the Pacific was over.
- The closest is the review from Bloody Disgusting.
- The ghost of Slytherin house is The Bloody Baron.
- He's a bloody Sinologist turned political scientist.
- The battle of the Bloody Marsh was nothing but a sideshow.
- The image on the left is Geranium sanguineum, the bloody cranesbill.
- Americans glamorize a bloody war while the French solemnly reflect in peace.
- Why is sexual philandering judged more harshly than our treacherous, bloody and failed war making
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