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blood-red Definition

blood·-red (-red′)

adjective

  1. stained red with blood
  2. having the deep-red color of blood

blood-red Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • moon: Of course, next day's newspapers were full of photos of a clear blood-red moon, presumably taken nowhere near the Camberley area.
  • pouch: In los angeles blood-red velvet pouch shut out entirely of the new.
  • sky: A deep, blood-red sky like the breaking of the darkest dawn hung above a desolate landscape.
  • sun: At 1545 GMT there was a 5-minute glimpse of a blood-red sun setting under the cloud sheet.
  • wine: They flew over this house of mine, This made me spill my blood-red wine.
  • eye: The troll jabs the knife in your direction, his blood-red eyes dripping with greed.

Used with adjective complement

  • turn: The Royal Astronomical Society has predicted that the moon is to turn blood-red during a lunar eclipse above British skies tonight.