Meanings
- uncountableA mixture of blood and water.
"Living worms in the bloodwater suggests it was not treated," [Alexandra] Morton said of the fish waste. "And this is going into the largest wild salmon migration route."
2017 November 27, Lynda V. Mapes, “B.C. fish processors spewing potentially dangerous bloodwater into key salmon migration corridor”, in The Seattle Times, Seattle, W.A: The Seattle Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Dec 20223 more examples
Ender stepped under the water and rinsed himself, took the sweat of combat and let it run down the drain. All gone, except they recycled it and we'll be drinking Bonzo’s bloodwater in the morning.
1985, Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game, London: Century Publishing, →ISBN, page 234Beyond the terrace the twinkling city lights faded, dark stars, and blood seeped from brick and glass, streamed along concrete and steel until the streets grew soaked with scarlet. Then a torrent of rushing bloodwater engulfed the city's humanity, whisking them to their doom.
2007, Howard Hopkins, “Death Reign of the Zombie Queen”, in The Spider Chronicles, Calumet City, I.L.: Moonstone Books, →ISBN, page 78And the river flowed through them, soaking them red, inundating and running through them as they piled up, clacking in the babbling stream—and I could see the gray streak of Jimmy's ashes in the bloodwater, and I followed it.
2012, Trebor Healey, A Horse Named Sorrow, Madison, W.I.: Terrace Books, →ISBN, page 272
Origin
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