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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bloody \Blood"y\, adjective [AS. bl[=o]dig.]
1. Containing or resembling blood; of the nature of blood; as, bloody excretions; bloody sweat.
2. Smeared or stained with blood; as, bloody hands; a bloody handkerchief.
3. Given, or tending, to the shedding of blood; having a cruel, savage disposition; murderous; cruel.
Some bloody passion shakes your very frame. --Shak.
4. Attended with, or involving, bloodshed; sanguinary; esp., marked by great slaughter or cruelty; as, a bloody battle.
5. Infamous; contemptible; -- variously used for mere emphasis or as a low epithet. [Vulgar] --Thackeray.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bloody \Blood"y\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Bloodied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bloodying}.] To stain with blood. --Overbury.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
bloody
adjective
1: having or covered with or accompanied by blood; "a bloody nose"; "your scarf is all bloody"; "the effects will be violent and probably bloody"; "a bloody fight" [ant: {bloodless}]
2: (used of persons) informal intensifiers; "what a bally (or blinking) nuisance"; "a bloody fool"; "a crashing bore"; "you flaming idiot" [syn: {bally(a)}, {blinking(a)}, {bloody(a)}, {blooming(a)}, {crashing(a)}, {flaming(a)}, {fucking(a)}]
adverb: extremely; "you are bloody right"; "Why are you so all-fired aggressive?" [syn: {damn}, {all-fired}]
verb: cover with blood; "bloody your hands" [also: {bloodied}, {bloodiest}, {bloodier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
224 Moby Thesaurus words for "bloody": Draconian, Tartarean, abrade, accursed, aggressive, agonize, animal, antagonistic, anthropophagous, atrocious, barbaric, barbarous, bark, battling, beastly, bellicose, belligerent, bestial, bleed, bleeding, blemish, blood-colored, blood-spattered, bloodstain, bloodstained, bloodthirsty, bloody-minded, bloody-red, blooming, break, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish, burn, cannibalistic, chafe, chauvinist, chauvinistic, check, chip, chylifactive, chylifactory, chylific, claw, combative, complete, consummate, contentious, convulse, crack, craze, crucify, cruel, cruel-hearted, cursed, cussed, cut, cutthroat, damn, damnable, damned, dashed, demoniac, demoniacal, devilish, diabolic, ecchymose, ecchymosed, enemy, ensanguine, ensanguined, excruciate, execrable, fell, feral, ferine, ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, fighting, fracture, fray, frazzle, fret, full of fight, gall, gash, goddamn, goddamned, gory, grim, gross, harrow, hawkish, hellish, hemorrhage, hemorrhaging, homicidal, hostile, humoral, hurt, ichorous, impale, incise, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, inimical, injure, jingo, jingoish, jingoist, jingoistic, kill by inches, kill-crazy, lacerate, lachrymal, lacrimatory, lancinate, lose blood, macerate, maim, make mincemeat of, malign, malignant, martial, martyr, martyrize, maul, merciless, militant, militaristic, military, murdering, murderous, mutilate, noncivilized, offensive, out-and-out, phlegmy, pierce, pitiless, pugnacious, puncture, punish, purulent, pussy, quarrelsome, rack, rank, red-handed, rend, rheumy, rip, ruddy, run, rupture, ruthless, saber-rattling, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguine, sanguineous, sanious, satanic, savage, scald, scarify, scorch, scotch, scrape, scrappy, scratch, scuff, self-destructive, serous, sharkish, shed blood, skin, slash, slaughterous, slavering, slit, soldierlike, soldierly, spill blood, sprain, stab, stick, strain, subhuman, suicidal, suppurated, suppurating, suppurative, tameless, tear, tearlike, torment, torture, traumatize, trigger-happy, truculent, unchristian, uncivilized, unfriendly, ungentle, unhuman, unmitigated, unpacific, unpeaceable, unpeaceful, untamed, vicious, warlike, warmongering, warring, wild, wolfish, wound, wrench, wring
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