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bloody

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"Very, as an intensifier"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈblʌ.di/Part of speech adverb, verb, adjectiveSorted bdlooyStarts with BEnds with Y1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Covered with blood, or used informally as an intensifier.

Word origin

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”).

Used in a sentence

  • All that remained of his right hand after the accident was a bloody stump.
  • And, as she fled, her mantle she did fall, / Which Lion vile with bloody mouth did stain.
  • There have been bloody battles between the two tribes.

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