Meanings
- not comparablebloody, bleeding.
Blackburn's cause was not helped when Morten Gamst Pedersen and Gael Givet collided going for the same ball, both players emerging blooded and dazed but otherwise unharmed.
2011 October 29, Neil Johnston, “Norwich 3 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC Sport - not comparableExperienced (especially in warfare).
I'll let a rookie march behind me with a loaded weapon once he's been blooded in combat, until then he stays in front where I can see which way he's pointing.
Antonyms: unblooded
- Following a modifying word in a compound:
- not comparablebiologyHaving a certain physiological characteristic, particularly in relation to blood or the circulatory system.
Mammals are warm-blooded.
- figurativelynot comparableHaving a certain kind of temperament or disposition.
Only a cold-blooded killer could have done something like this.
- figurativelynot comparablesometimes offensive in compounds that refer to purity or partial degreesHaving ancestry to a certain degree.
He's a full-blooded Irishman.
- not comparableusuallycattlebiologyDerived from ancestors of good blood; having a good pedigree.
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of blood
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveExperienced (especially in warfare).
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiveof unmixed ancestry
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Middle Englishbloded
- Englishblooded
From Middle English bloded, equivalent to blood + -ed.
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Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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