- involving a lot of violence and killing
- a bloody battle
- The terrorists have halted their bloody campaign of violence.
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- covered with blood; bleeding
- to give somebody a bloody nose (= in a fight)
- bloody fingerprints
Word OriginOld English blōdig (see blood, -y).
Idioms
See bloody in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryscream bloody murder (North American English) (British English)
(also scream blue murder)
- to scream loudly and for a long time, especially in order to protest about something
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