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bloody

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a bloody/bloodless coup (= with or without killing and violence ) ▪ In 1974, the regime was overthrown in a bloodless coup. bloody but unbowed ▪ After the fight, Ali was bloody but unbowed . Bloody Mary EXAMPLES ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adv. extremely; "you are bloody right"; "Why are you so all-fired aggressive?" [syn: damn , all-fired ] [also: bloodied , bloodiest , bloodier ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bloody \Blood"y\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bloodied ; p. pr. & vb. n. Bloodying .] To stain with blood. --Overbury.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Bloody is a commonly used expletive attributive ( intensifier ) in British English . It was used as an intensive since at least the 1670s. Considered "respectable" until about 1750, it was heavily tabooed during c. 1750–1920, considered equivalent to heavily ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old Engish blodig , adjective from blod (see blood ). Common Germanic, compare Old Frisian blodich , Old Saxon blôdag , Dutch bloedig , Old High German bluotag , German blutig .\n \nIt has been a British intensive swear word since at least 1676. Weekley ...

Usage examples of bloody.

Eastern troops, he recommended to their zeal the execution of his bloody design, which might be accomplished in his absence, with less danger, perhaps, and with less reproach.

Bloody but unbowed, Caine returns to Ankhar very few minutes from now, for a final desperate attempt to his wife from the horrors of amplitude decay.

The approaching contest with Magnentius was of a more serious and bloody kind.

Kirk of Scotland is linked more than ever with sectaries and antinomians and those, like the bloody and deceitful Cromwell, that would defile the milk of the Word with the sour whey of their human inventions.

A dwarf choreographer and an aging diva and a little boy with a wooden horse named Bloody Hell and a beautiful, bad-tempered, achingly tender ballerina who made love as though she were both dancing and fighting for her life.

Without the bloody, blasted beastie, they would certainly lose Talla Dileas.

As soon as her eyes had grown accustomed to the light, Lady Bellamy went up to the body, and, drawing off the sheet, gazed long and steadily at the mutilated face, on the lips of which the bloody froth still stood.

I had hoped to soon set sail for Normandy, there to spend some time in my own lands and get the taste of this benighted land from off my tongue, its squalorous stinks from out my nostrils, not to set sail across thousands of leagues of open ocean to fetch up, at last, in a place even more primitive and dark and bloody than this Ireland.

Here we have the rather banal world of New Age talk-show blather as the public face of a very real and bloody attempt to reshape the world.

He lowered his ear to her bloodied mouth but could detect no sound of breaming.

From a stainless-steel cabinet in the corner he brought over two sealed specimen jars containing a mass of mangled human offal half immersed in a bloodied liquid.

He reached out blindly and touched naked flesh, then jerked his head back as long red fingernails clawed bloodied lines down his face.

The left-hand side was bloodied pulp with part of the cheek and lower lip flapping down, showing teeth and bone.

He pointed to a bloodied indentation running parallel to the severed ends.

Frost pulled his eyes away from the bloodied stump of the neck and gingerly touched the flesh of her arm.