bloody
/ˈblʌ.di/ adjective B2- Covered in blood. · All that remained of his right hand after the accident was a bloody stump.
- Characterised by bloodshed. · There have been bloody battles between the two tribes.
- Badly behaved; unpleasant; beastly.
Comparative bloodier · Superlative bloodiest
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Nor can it be denied that many of the family have been unhappy in their deaths, which have been sudden, bloody, and mysterious.
The crisis was terrible, and a rigid form with twisted limbs, swollen eyelids, and lips flecked with bloody foam, lay on the bed of torture, in place of the intellectual being who so lately rested there.
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