Blood Definition
blŭd
bloods
noun
bloods
The usually red fluid, consisting of plasma, red and white blood cells, etc., that circulates through the heart, arteries, and veins of vertebrates: blood is a tissue that carries oxygen, hormones, cell-building material, etc. to, and carbon dioxide and waste matter away from, the other tissues.
Webster's New World
A comparable fluid, usually colorless or bluish, in many invertebrate animals.
Webster's New World
Lifeblood.
Webster's New World
The sap or juice of a plant.
Webster's New World
The spilling of blood; murder.
Webster's New World
verb
bloods
To let (a hunting dog) taste, smell, or see the blood of its prey.
Webster's New World
To subject (troops) to experience under fire.
American Heritage
To initiate (a hunter) by staining the hunter's face with blood of the prey.
Webster's New World
To initiate (a person) in any new experience.
Webster's New World
To cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.
Wiktionary
idiom
bad blood
- Long-standing animosity.
American Heritage
in cold blood
- Deliberately, coldly, and dispassionately.
American Heritage
in (one's) blood
- So characteristic as to seem inherited or passed down by family tradition.
American Heritage
bad blood
- anger; hatred
Webster's New World
blood is thicker than water
- family ties are stronger than others
Webster's New World
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Blood
- bad blood
- in cold blood
- in (one's) blood
- bad blood
- blood is thicker than water
- have (someone's) blood on one's hands
- in cold blood
- make someone's blood boil
- make someone's blood run cold
Origin of Blood
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Middle English blod, Old English blōd, Proto-Germanic *blōþą, of uncertain origin. Cognate with West Frisian bloed, Dutch bloed, German Blut, Danish blod, Swedish blod.
From Wiktionary
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Middle English blod from Old English blōd bhel-3 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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