bloody

Object

• hand: He raised a bloodied hand to clutch at the chair arm, but it slipped off, too wet to find purchase.
• head: How could a man, head bloodied by an American bomb, give no sign of agony or anger?
• tooth: A moment later it surfaced with dripping entrails and what looked to be gnarled clumps of brain tissue clamped between its bloodied teeth.
• mess: TAIL DOCKING NONE of our MPs would deliberately smash a dog's tail and leave it a bloodied mess.

Modifies a noun

• hell: John: Oh, bloody hell, I told you!
• nose: That said, they are more than capable of giving any team a bloody nose.
• diarrhea: The symptoms include abdominal pain and tenderness, nausea, vomiting and bloody diarrhea.
• battle: Somme marked 90 years on Events take place in northern France to mark the 90th anniversary of the bloody Battle of the Somme.
• freezing: With the exception of being, for want of a better term, bloody freezing, perfect weather for flying rockets.
• mindedness: And with all the bloody mindedness I can muster I will not bet again.

Modifying Another Word

• pretty: That's pretty bloody final, isn't it?
• absolutely: At midday I exited the Maths & Social Sciences building of the University of Manchester North UMIST Campus feeling absolutely bloody great.
• too: Or maybe they'll be too bloody subtle to see at all.
• so: In point of fact he is worse because he is so bloody sneaky.
• sometimes: Symptoms: fluid, sometimes bloody, ' leaking ' from shell.
• extremely: The evidence of history is that revolutions are usually peaceful - but the resulting counter-revolution is usually extremely bloody and ruthless.

Used with adjective complement

• do: You'd think it difficult to hide a waterfall wouldn't you but they did bloody well.
• get: A short while after the pool started getting bloody so we got out and sat on a duvet on the floor.
• become: Since then, the already confused picture in Gaza has become even bloodier.
• go: Answer: You have to pull bloody hard, and it goes bloody fast!