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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"
Translations
bloodiness [ˈblʌdɪnɪs] N (lit) → lo sangriento
the bloodiness of his deedsel carácter sangriento de sus actos
bloodiness
n
(of sight, war etc)Blutigkeit f
(inf, = horribleness) → Grässlichkeit f, → Abscheulichkeit f


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It should have something of the bloodiness of Nick Cave about it, because it deals with strong human emotions.
In each aggression, Israel's bloodiness and the barbarism of its military leaders grow compared to the previous one, in order to humiliate Arab societies, wear down civilians and drive them to despair about their cause, due to the excessive amount of blood they shed and the tribulations they face, and even when Israel stumbles and fails in some of its military plans, it relies on the divisions in the ranks of those it opposes.
Far from being repulsed, they saw in the bloodiness of The Passion echoes of their own piety.
 
 
 
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