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BLOODED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of unmixed ancestry
Example:
blooded Jersies
Synonyms:
blooded; full-blood; full-blooded
Classified under:
Similar:
purebred (bred for many generations from member of a recognized breed or strain)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb blood
Context examples:
“There’s a cold-blooded scoundrel!” said Holmes, laughing, as he threw himself down into his chair once more.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It is a very deeply planned and cold-blooded murder.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Amphibians are cold blooded land animals that lay eggs in the water.
(Amphibia, NCI Thesaurus)
We're warm-blooded and agile in comparison with our reptilian relatives.
(What makes a mammal a mammal? Our spine, say scientists, National Science Foundation)
Under the royal banners rode many a bold Gascon baron and many a hot-blooded islander.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
White sharks, which are warm-blooded animals, used a combination of warm- and cold-water eddies to locate food in the twilight zone, while blue sharks — a cold-blooded species — relied exclusively on warm-water eddies.
(Blue sharks use ocean eddies as fast-tracks to food, National Science Foundation)
Mr Elliot is a man without heart or conscience; a designing, wary, cold-blooded being, who thinks only of himself; whom for his own interest or ease, would be guilty of any cruelty, or any treachery, that could be perpetrated without risk of his general character.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
The sight of him put me at my ease, for he was a merry-looking man, handsome too in a portly, full-blooded way, with laughing eyes and pouting, sensitive lips.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And their refusals had been cold-blooded, automatic, stereotyped.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Brutality had followed brutality, and flaming passions and cold-blooded cruelty had driven men to seek one another’s lives, and to strive to hurt, and maim, and destroy.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
