blood·y (blŭd'ē)
adj., -i·er, -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., -ied, -y·ing, -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.

bloodily blood'i·ly adv.
bloodiness blood'i·ness n.

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