blooded
/ˈblʌ.dəd/ adjective C2- bloody, bleeding.
- Experienced (especially in warfare).
- Having a certain physiological characteristic, particularly in relation to blood or the circulatory system. · Mammals are warm-blooded.
- Having a certain kind of temperament or disposition. · Only a cold-blooded killer could have done something like this.
- Having ancestry to a certain degree. · He's a full-blooded Irishman.
- Having a certain ancestry. · A blue-blooded aristocrat.
- Derived from ancestors of good blood; having a good pedigree.
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As I watched him I was irresistibly reminded of a pure-blooded well-trained foxhound as it dashes backwards and forwards through the covert, whining in its eagerness, until it comes across the lost scent.
It is seldom that any man, unless he is very full-blooded, breaks out in this way through emotion, so I hazarded the opinion that the criminal was probably a robust and ruddy-faced man.
There he sat, with his tweed suit and his American accent, in the corner of a prosaic railway-carriage, and yet as I looked at his dark and expressive face I felt more than ever how true a descendant he was of that long line of high-blooded, fiery, and masterful men.
“It is murder, Watson—refined, cold-blooded, deliberate murder.
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