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Bloody is a related term of savage.


As an adjective bloody

is covered in blood.

As an adverb bloody

is (au|nz|british|mildly|vulgar) used to intensify what follows this adverb.

As a verb bloody

is to draw blood from one's opponent in a fight.

As a proper noun savage is

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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

    savage

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • wild; not cultivated
    • a savage wilderness
  • * Dryden
    • savage berries of the wood
  • barbaric; not civilized
    • savage manners
  • * 1719-
    • I observed a place where there had been a fire made, and a circle dug in the earth, like a cockpit, where I supposed the savage wretches had sat down to their human feastings upon the bodies of their fellow-creatures.
  • * E. D. Griffin
    • What nation, since the commencement of the Christian era, ever rose from savage to civilized without Christianity?
  • fierce and ferocious
    • savage beasts
    a savage spirit
  • brutal, vicious or merciless
    • He gave the dog a savage kick.
    The woman was killed in a savage manner.
  • (UK, slang) unpleasant or unfair
    • - I'll see you in detention.
    - Ah, savage !

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (pejorative) An uncivilized or feral human; a barbarian.
  • * 1847 , , Tancred: or The New Crusade , page 251
    • 'Well, my lord, I don't know,' said Freeman with a sort of jolly sneer; 'we have been dining with the savages'.'
    'They are not '     savages     , Freeman.'
    'Well, my lord, they have not much more clothes, anyhow; and as for knives and forks, there is not such a thing known.'
  • (figuratively) A defiant person.

    • Verb

    (transitive)
  • To attack or assault someone or something ferociously or without restraint.
  • (figuratively) To criticise vehemently.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
    • , title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}
  • (of an animal) To attack with the teeth.
  • (obsolete) To make savage.
  • * South
    • Its bloodhounds, savaged by a cross of wolf.

    Anagrams

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