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bloodily

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blood·y  (bld)
adj. blood·i·er, blood·i·est
1. Stained with blood.
2. Of, characteristic of, or containing blood.
3. Accompanied by or giving rise to bloodshed: a bloody fight.
4. Bloodthirsty.
5. Suggesting the color of blood; blood-red.
6. Chiefly British Slang Used as an intensive: "Everyone wants to have a convict in his bloody family tree" (Robert Hughes).
adv.
Chiefly British Slang Used as an intensive: bloody well right.
tr.v. blood·ied, blood·y·ing, blood·ies
1. To stain, spot, or color with or as if with blood.
2. To make bleed, as by injuring or wounding: The troops were bloodied in the skirmish.

bloodi·ly adv.
bloodi·ness n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adv.1.bloodily - involving a great bloodshed
bloodlessly - without bloodshed; in a bloodless manner; without shedding blood; "the coup disposed of the dictator bloodlessly"
Translations
bloodily [ˈblʌdɪlɪ] ADV the rebellion was bloodily put downreprimieron la rebelión de forma sangrienta
a man was dying bloodily on the floorun hombre moría en el suelo en un baño de sangre or moría desangrado en el suelo
bloodily [ˈblʌdɪli] adv [suppress, kill] → d'une manière sanglante; [crush, defeat, repress] → dans le sang
bloodily
adv defeat, repress, killblutig


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" "You are always so bloodily wise," quoth the husband: "it would have cost her more, would it?
"Friends," said the naturalist, looking with a sorrowful eye from one to another of his bloodily disposed companions, "slay not Asinus; he is a specimen of his kind, of whom much good and little evil can be said.
"Though not a vaunting and bloodily disposed Goliath," returned David, drawing a sling from beneath his parti- colored and uncouth attire, "I have not forgotten the example of the Jewish boy.
 
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