- 1involving a lot of violence and killing a bloody battle The terrorists have halted their bloody campaign of violence.
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- 2covered with blood; bleeding to give someone a bloody nose (= in a fight) bloody fingerprints
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NAmE//ˈblʌdl̩i//
adverbIdioms 2to scream loudly and for a long time, especially in order to protest about somethingSee bloody in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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