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adj. blood·i·er, blood·i·est
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).
Chiefly British Slang Used as an intensive: bloody well right.
tr.v. blood·ied, blood·y·ing, blood·ies

blood′i·ly adv.
blood′i·ness n.


1. stained with or covered in blood
2. bloodied but unbowed wounded but not defeated
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By night's end, she lay broken, bloodied and dead in the street.
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Fr Edward Daly, 73, was pushed into the limelight when images of him clasping a bloodied handkerchief while tending to the dying in Derry were beamed around the world.