bloody

(blŭdˈē)

1. Stained with blood.
2. Of, characteristic of, or containing blood.
3. Accompanied by or giving rise to bloodshed: a bloody fight.
4. Bloodthirsty.
5. Suggesting the color of blood; blood-red.
6. Chiefly British Slang Used as an intensive: “Everyone wants to have a convict in his bloody family tree” (Robert Hughes).

1. To stain, spot, or color with or as if with blood.
2. To make bleed, as by injuring or wounding: The troops were bloodied in the skirmish.

Related Forms:

• bloodˈi·ly adverb

• bloodˈi·ness noun