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Bloodied vs Blooded - What's the difference?

bloodied | blooded |

As verbs the difference between bloodied and blooded

is that bloodied is past tense of bloody while blooded is past tense of blood.

As an adjective blooded is

experienced.

bloodied

English

Verb

(head)
  • (bloody)

    • bloody

    English

    Alternative forms

    * bloudy (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Covered in blood.
    • All that remained of his right hand after the accident was a bloody stump.
  • * , Act 5, Scene 1, 2008 [1947], Forgotten Books, page 84,
    • And, as she fled, her mantle she did fall, / Which Lion vile with bloody mouth did stain.
  • * 2011 , , analysis of Act 2 Scene 1, 100,
    • They plan to walk to the market-place, showing their bloody hands and swords and declaring ‘Peace, freedom and liberty!’
  • Characterised by bloodshed.
    • There have been bloody battles between the two tribes.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Some bloody passion shakes your very frame.
  • * 1845 , , 2008, page 5,
    • I had therefore been, until now, out of the way of the bloody scenes that often occurred on the plantation.
  • * 2007 , Lucinda Mallows, Lucy Mallows, Slovakia: The Bradt Travel Guide , page 169,
    • The story of Elizabeth Bathory is one of the bloodiest in history.
  • (AU, NZ, UK, colloquial, mildly, vulgar, not comparable) Used as an intensifier.
  • * 1994 , , Lord of Chaos , page 519,
    • Try to keep those bloody' women's '''bloody''' heads on their ' bloody shoulders by somehow helping them make this whole mad impossible scheme actually work.
  • * 2003 , , page 64,
    • You are not to go asking anyone about who killed that bloody dog.
  • * 2007 , James MacFarlane, Avenge My Kin , Book 2: A Time of Testing, page 498,
    • “You bloody fool, I could?ve stabbed you in the heart,” David said in mock anger, and then smiled widely.

    Synonyms

    * (covered in blood) bleeding, bloodied, gory, sanguinolent * (intensifier) bally, blasted, bleeding (chiefly British cockney), blinking, blooming, damn, damned, dang, darned, doggone, flaming, freaking, fricking, frigging, fucking, goddam / goddamn, goddamned, godforsaken (rare), wretched, rotten * See also

    Derived terms

    * bloody hell * bloody oath * bloody mary * bloody warrior * give someone a bloody nose

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (AU, NZ, British, mildly, vulgar) Used to intensify what follows this adverb.
    • 1994:' '', 109 - "Dice are no ' bloody good," David said.

    Synonyms

    * bloody well * bally, blasted, bleeding, blooming

    Verb

  • To draw blood from one's opponent in a fight.
  • To demonstrably harm the cause of an opponent.

    • Anagrams

    * English degree adverbs English intensifiers English swear words

    blooded

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Experienced.
    • I'll let a rookie march behind me with a loaded weapon once he's been blooded in combat, until then he stays in front where I can see which way he's pointing.
  • Descended from.
    • He's a full-blooded Apache.
  • bloody, bleeding.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 29 , author=Neil Johnston , title=Norwich 3 - 3 Blackburn , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Blackburn's cause was not helped when Morten Gamst Pedersen and Gael Givet collided going for the same ball, both players emerging blooded and dazed but otherwise unharmed.}}

    Derived terms

    * full-blooded

    Verb

    (head)
  • (blood)