Definitions for Blood

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Blood blood

Spelling: [bluhd]

IPA: /blʌd/

Blood is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 43 anagrams from letters in Blood (bdloo).

Definitions for Blood

noun

1. the fluid that circulates in the principal vascular system of human beings and other vertebrates, in humans consisting of plasma in which the red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets are suspended.
2. the vital principle; life:
3. a person or group regarded as a source of energy, vitality, or vigor:
4. one of the four elemental bodily humors of medieval physiology, regarded as causing cheerfulness.
5. bloodshed; gore; slaughter; murder:
6. the juice or sap of plants:
7. temperament; state of mind:
8. physical nature of human beings:
9. Chiefly British. a high-spirited dandy; an adventuresome youth:
10. a profligate or rake.
11. physical and cultural extraction:
12. royal extraction:
13. descent from a common ancestor; ancestry; lineage:
14. recorded and respected ancestry; purebred breeding.
15. Slang. a black person, especially a man.

Idioms

1. get / have one's blood up, to become or be enraged or impassioned:
2. have someone's blood on one's head / hands, to be to blame for someone's affliction or death:
3. in cold blood, deliberately; ruthlessly:
4. make one's blood boil, to inspire resentment, anger, or indignation:
5. make one's blood run cold, to fill with terror; frighten:
6. sweat blood. sweat (def 37).
7. taste blood, to experience a new sensation, usually a violent or destructive one, and acquire an appetite for it:

verb (used with object)

1. Hunting. to give (hounds) a first sight or taste of blood. Compare flesh (def 14).
2. to stain with blood.

Origin of Blood

before 1000; Middle English blo(o)d, Old English blōd; cognate with Old Frisian, Old Saxon blōd, Old High German bluot (German Blut), Old Norse blōth, Gothic bloth Germanic *blōdaⁿ

Examples for Blood

The Royal Family has benefited hugely from the American blood in its veins.

There's blood on many hands tonight…That blood on the hands starts at City Hall in the Office of the Mayor.

For nearly her entire life Beyoncé has been giving us her blood, sweat, and tears in her career.

As I tried to get upright, I realized with horror that the blood was my own.

In its over 1,000-year history, the land has soaked in the blood of millions of people.

Still he is well spotted, and them freckles mean iron in the blood.

He had become so wedded to his gold that to lose it was like losing his heart's blood.

The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment.

Nalle is an octoroon; his wife has the same infusion of Caucasian blood.

It was a good rake, and there was fur upon his claws—and blood.