verb
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To draw blood from one's opponent in a fight.
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To demonstrably harm the cause of an opponent.
adjective
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Covered in blood.
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All that remained of his right hand after the accident was a bloody stump.
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Characterised by bloodshed.
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There have been bloody battles between the two tribes.
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Used as an intensifier.
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Badly behaved; unpleasant; beastly.
adverb
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(intensifier) Used to express anger, annoyance, shock, or for emphasis.
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Examples of bloody in a Sentence
Rob was holding a bloody cloth over his nose.
She held up her bloody arm.
Well, if you do exist, Mister or Missus Psychic, I'll find you first and smash you and your crystal to bloody dust!
He dabbed a bloody cuticle as we discussed how to handle the call.
The bloody man—Rainy— looked at her with pure hostility.
Human Deidre was probably terrified, a bloody mess who would do whatever Darkyn told her at the end of the week in exchange for him sparing her more pain.
His attention fell again to the bloody neck of Darkyn's mate.
Alex, staring at his bloody hands after the man ran out the door.
She relived the bloody scene in the banquet hall, heard the creature panting her name as he came against her thigh and then tore through the other side of her neck.
He passed through them tensely, many of them as bloody or bruised as he was.
Belfair watched, a sneering smile painted on her beautiful face, revenge was hers, as Jership the Terrible crashed in a bloody heap on the rocks below.
She followed the plan, had the picture in-hand and was locking the door to the house when Brutus wandered up with a bloody muzzle.
His left hand was bloody; he wiped it on his coat and supported himself with it.
Others were exposed to bar room fights, muggings, schooled in army combat or at least been the recipient of a bloody nose from a third grade bully.
Damian wasn't sure how someone going from the second to first floor had managed to get bloody enough to look like she crawled through a war zone.
She lifted the wing and examined the bloody breast.
One ear was torn half off and his fur was bloody around the collar.
Dean began to peel away her soaked clothes, half expecting her to wake and scream bloody murder that he was raping her.
Her mate, her only love, was nothing more than bloody pulp.
After a bloody defeat at the hands of the neighbouring mountaineers (409) the Spartan governor quarrelled with the native settlers, whom he expelled in 399.
The new Servian kingdom of the Nemanides, on the other hand, gave him much trouble and was the occasion of many bloody wars.
In fact I doubt very much whether the bloody thing was ever consummated in the first place.
You're just moving money around you bloody idiot.
It is well known that despite the heroic and bloody defensive action of the Royal Marines the Island was captured by German paratroops.
You put it on wet, let it dry and then get the bloody sander out to get it off.
Everyone, by contrast, would kiss the hand that fed them, regardless of how bloody it was.
If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood.
His eyes were glazed and the car seat bloody.
Her trousers were black with mud front and back, her pant leg torn, and her left knee bloody.
The hands that still covered the entry sight were bloody.
She ate two more of the sugar cubes and a water cube, eyes lingering on the bloody mess that was her jumper in the corner.
In between, his sleep-movies starred Annie, huddled and pregnant as she walked the penstock trail in tears, and Shipton plunging down to the rocks and river below, amid scores of viewers clapping and cheering his bloody demise.
His head was bloody, he looked like shit, and at least one of the medics thought he was already dead.
But then he pictured his beautiful wife, her unfailingly sweet and kind nature, and refused his mind's picture of her kneeling there in the snow, calmly sawing Shipton's rope until it parted, plunging him to his bloody death.
Immobilized, fear rose within her as she watched the Black God lift Darian's bloody form from the ground.
In the course of a bloody insurrection in Catalonia, which ended in the bombardment of Barcelona, Ferdinand de Lesseps showed the most persistent bravery, rescuing from death, without distinction, the men belonging to the rival factions, and protecting and sending away not only the Frenchmen who were in danger, but foreigners of all nationalities.
The struggle of the Greeks and the Goths was carried on for fourteen years, between 539 and 553, when Teias, the last Gothic king, was finally defeated in a bloody battle near Vesuvius.
The popes had been successful; but they hac purchased their bloody victory at a great cost.
The ritual of worship was peculiar, not admitting bloody sacrifices.
Among the Jews the preaching of the prophets had been a constant protest against the grosser forms of sacrifice, and there are indications that when Christianity arose bloody sacrifices were already beginning to fall into disuse; a saying which was attributed by the Ebionites to Christ repeats this protest in a strong form, "I.
Theodoric's siege of Ravenna lasted for three years (489-492), and was marked by one bloody encounter in the pinewood on the east of it.
On this bloody sabbath the priests showed a devotion to their worship which matched the inaction of the fighting men.
The third crusade, famous for the participation of Richard I., was the occasion for bloody riots in England, especially in York, where 150 Jews immolated themselves to escape baptism.
In 1676, during " Bacon's Rebellion," a party of Virginians under Bacon's command killed about 150 Indians who were defending a fort on a hill a short distance east of the site of Richmond in the " Battle of Bloody Run," so called because the blood of the slain savages is said to have coloured the brook (or " run ") at the base of the hill.
During the Civil War Halifax was garrisoned by parliament, and a field near it is still called the Bloody Field on account of an engagement which took place there between the forces of parliament and the Royalists.
The courage of the Romans, however, soon overcame such fears; the Britons were put to flight; and the groves of Mona, the scene of many a sacrifice and bloody rite, were cut down.
An unusually bloody battle ensued, in which the French efforts were chiefly directed against the allied right, held by the Spaniards.
The conflict about St Pierre (Lostenia) was one of the most bloody of the war; but for hours Hill maintained his ground, and finally repulsed the French before Wellington, delayed by his pontoon bridge over the Nive having been swept away, arrived to his aid.
On the following day the Boer attack on an armoured train at Kraaipan, a railway station in Cape Colony south of Mafeking and close to the western frontier of the Transvaal, witnessed the first hostile shot of a bloody war, destined to plunge South Africa into strife for two years and a half.
The savage reprisals on their suppression, in especial the "Bloody Assizes" of Jeffreys, produced a revulsion of public feeling.