See Also: VIOLENCE
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Noun | 1. | ![]() craniate, vertebrate - animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium arterial blood - blood found in arteries; "except for the pulmonary artery the arterial blood is rich in oxygen" blood group, blood type - human blood cells (usually just the red blood cells) that have the same antigens gore - coagulated blood from a wound lifeblood - the blood considered as the seat of vitality blood stream, bloodstream - the blood flowing through the circulatory system blood clot, grume - a semisolid mass of coagulated red and white blood cells cord blood - blood obtained from the umbilical cord at birth menorrhea, menstrual blood, menstrual flow - flow of blood from the uterus; occurs at roughly monthly intervals during a woman's reproductive years venous blood - blood found in the veins; "except in the pulmonary vein venous blood is rich in carbon dioxide and poor in oxygen" whole blood - blood that has not been modified except for the addition of an anticoagulant; "whole blood is normally used in blood transfusions" blood serum, serum - an amber, watery fluid, rich in proteins, that separates out when blood coagulates blood cell, blood corpuscle, corpuscle - either of two types of cells (erythrocytes and leukocytes) and sometimes including platelets |
2. | ![]() disposition, temperament - your usual mood; "he has a happy disposition" | |
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4. | ![]() ancestry, blood line, bloodline, lineage, pedigree, stemma, line of descent, parentage, origin, descent, stock, line kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, family line, sept, folk, family - people descended from a common ancestor; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower" side - a family line of descent; "he gets his brains from his father's side" family tree, genealogy - successive generations of kin | |
5. | ![]() people - (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience" | |
Verb | 1. | blood - smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill |