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Bloodiness

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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
Noun1.bloodiness - the state of being bloody
physical condition, physiological condition, physiological state - the condition or state of the body or bodily functions
2.bloodiness - a disposition to shed blood
disposition, temperament - your usual mood; "he has a happy disposition"


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This feature accentuates the extreme, and often excessive, goriness and bloodiness of this volume.
We had a civil war of our own, one unrivaled in the nation's history in its bloodiness.
As Fred Halliday (2000:80) has observed, Huntington fails to "provide an accurate account of where the responsibility for this bloodiness may lie--in some cases prime responsibility lies with Muslims, in others not.
 
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