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bloody

[bluhd-ee] / ˈblʌd i /


ADJECTIVE
(used as intensifier)
Synonyms


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In 1691 Schuyler distinguished himself during another bloody incursion into French territory.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

She added: "I know I would have made a bloody good granny."

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

The Buddha, seeing him bruised, bloody, and weeping, smiles and tells him he must bear it.

From Slate Jul. 10, 2026

Ashley Hernandez, a Wilmington resident and organizer with the nonprofit Communities for a Better Environment, said bloody noses and noxious fumes were a regular part of life in the neighborhood growing up.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 23, 2026

The press of a button and the screen changed from the bloody battle of the Alamo to the serene inside of Ford’s Theatre.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

Beloved in Italy, it anticipates “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” though its sense of humor is broader and its budget evidently bigger, with bloodier battles and cinematography that approaches the picturesque.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 14, 2026

Police said the actions of that fourth officer likely spared the city from a bigger, bloodier attack.

From Seattle Times Jul. 21, 2023

Their stories are little-known footnotes of Cold War history, but six American GIs provide possible roadmaps for his future — though a COVID-19-era development could be a benchmark for a bloodier outcome.

From Washington Times Jul. 19, 2023

They deliver a fifth “Scream” installment that’s even bloodier and just as winking and self-aware as its predecessors.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 13, 2022

Without him France was a muddier and a bloodier place and the outside world more unreal than ever.

From The Rough Road by William John Locke

But the extremely strained relations between the two sides after nearly four years of Europe's bloodiest conflict since World War II have cast doubt over the prospect of direct Ukraine-Russia talks.

From Barron's Dec. 21, 2025

The unlikely diplomat trying to end Europe’s bloodiest war since 1945 speaks in golfing metaphors and long asides about the nature of capital markets.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 20, 2025

This is his Pynchoniad, a zigzagging epic of America and the world through our bloodiest, most shameful hundred years.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 30, 2025

Steven Peters was deployed to Helmand Province in 2009, during a period which became known as the British Army’s bloodiest summer in more than 50 years.

From BBC Oct. 30, 2024

From then on, even in the bloodiest periods of the war, the two commanders would arrange truces to exchange prisoners.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

But the outlook for more than one team joining the Wildcats is growing bleaker by the week as the conference bloodies itself.

From Seattle Times Feb. 12, 2024

And when the pope returns to Rome on Sunday, the country’s woes will remain, both in the violence that bloodies the land and in the treasure buried in the soil.

From New York Times Feb. 4, 2023

But in creativity, knocking harder often just bloodies your knuckles.

From Seattle Times Jan. 22, 2020

The son of a Yorkshire butcher, Bennett may be wishing against wish for a good honest job that bloodies the hands.

From Time Magazine Archive

He never bloodies his sword but in heat of battle, and had rather save one of his own soldiers than kill ten of his enemies.

From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various

The ad featured the iconic photograph of Curran helping a bloodied Trump off the stage in Butler.

From The Wall Street Journal May 3, 2026

After some 2,300 miles later, the walk ended this week in Washington, D.C., accompanied by images of worn shoes and battered, bloodied feet.

From Salon Feb. 13, 2026

Her organisation recently carried out a mission to the Bulgaria-Turkey border, where NGOs have documented cases of animals trapped for days or weeks, bringing back footage of bloodied livestock and cows giving birth beside trucks.

From Barron's Oct. 14, 2025

She noticed her uncle’s feet were bloodied from walking on broken glass in sandals and he was staring off into the distance and appeared to be in a fog.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 10, 2025

She bound the least bloodied pieces around Lyddie’s head and tied them in place with a narrower strip.

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson

You have to applaud Hamrouni, in that moment and others, for literally bloodying the nose of the patriarchy.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 3, 2023

Then at 5-3, while Raducanu was serving for the match, she slid on the court chasing a ball to her backhand side, bloodying her left knee.

From Seattle Times Sep. 11, 2021

Descending after the first big drop, it was reported that a 10-pound goose suddenly materialized in front of Fabio's face, bloodying him and then expiring as a result of the midair collision.

From Salon Aug. 14, 2021

The sports world should have seen several more years of that Ali, opening jaws and bloodying lips, but two fights later, his 1,314 days in exile began.

From Slate Jun. 4, 2016

Deciding it would be better to stand the rest of the way than risk bloodying my nose, I rose to my feet and offered him my seat.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros




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