Meaning

3 senses

  1. (transitive)To stain with blood.

    The butcher often bloodied his apron in the course of his work.

    cover with blood

  2. (transitive)To draw blood from (one's opponent) in a fight.

    bluten lassen, bluten machen, blutig machen

    закрива́влюватиzakryvávljuvaty, закрива́витиzakryvávyty

  3. (transitive)To demonstrably harm (the cause of an opponent).

Examples

145 sentences

  1. We found a bloody shirt in the shed.

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  2. Tom had a bloody nose and got blood on his shirt.

    deTom hatte eine blutige Nase und Blut auf seinem Hemd. — Manfredo

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  3. I had a bloody nose and got blood on my shirt.

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  4. Tom had a bloody nose and there was blood on his shirt.

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  5. When the police entered the room, Tom was holding a bloody knife.

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Translations

4 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to draw blood:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to draw blood:

Origin

From Middle English *blodien, *blodegen (attested as blodeke, bi-blodgi), from Old English

From Middle English *blodien, *blodegen (attested as blodeke, bi-blodgi), from Old English blōdgian, blōdegian (“to bloody, make bloody”), from Proto-West Germanic *blōdagōn (“to make bloody”), from Proto-Germanic *blōþagōną (“to make bloody”). Cognate with Middle High German bluotigen (“to make bloody”), Swedish blodga (“to make bloody”), Icelandic blóðga (“to bloody”).

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Forms

bloodies, bloodying, bloodied, bloodied
Base formbloody · to bloody
3rd person singularbloodies
Present participlebloodying
Past simplebloodied
Past participlebloodied

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybloody
he, she, itbloodies

Past simpleLesson

all personsbloodied

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave bloodied
he, she, ithas bloodied

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill bloody

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

Collocations

4 patterns
  • a bloody nose
  • bloody nose
  • bloody knife
  • had a bloody

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
bloodshedbloodstainedbloodstreamB2bloodthirstybloomA2bloomerbloomingB2

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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