bloodstained
stained with blood: a bloodstained knife.
guilty of murder, slaughter, or bloodshed.
Origin of bloodstained
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How to use bloodstained in a sentence
Lying on the pavement as blood stained my shirt and streamed down my leg, I thought a piece of glass had cut me.
19 of Us Were Shot on Mother’s Day, But New Orleans Dropped the Attempted Murder Charges | Mark Hertsgaard | May 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFor if they had, the history of the Republic would have been far less happy and far more blood-stained.
Since When Is Sexual Fidelity Required From Generals Like Petraeus and Allen? | Andrew Roberts | November 27, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe improbable and blood-stained scoundrel Joseph Fouché brought down Robespierre and the Reign of Terror in 1794.
Conrad Black: Tom DeLay, American Hero, Fights The Good Fight | Conrad Black | October 15, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe whole figure is clearly legible, except for the feet, which disappear into blood-stained nothingness.
The Shroud of Turin and Thomas de Wesselow’s ‘The Sign.’ | Thomas de Wesselow | April 3, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTI helped him bury the blood-stained knife and the keys under dirt and stones beside the garden wall.
I straightened his arms, and covered his face with the blood-stained coat and left him to his long sleep.
Raw Gold | Bertrand W. SinclairRollo ran down the streets of tents, a thousand eyes upon the thundering black horse and his blood-stained rider.
God Wills It! | William Stearns DavisBlood-stained bandages of linen around his right arm and leg betokened two recent wounds.
The Pilgrim's Shell or Fergan the Quarryman | Eugne SueHe who breathes his last over there, lying in his blood-stained bath, has never known this sacred flame.
The Nabob | Alphonse DaudetHe took the little white feather from his hatbrim and attached it to Winfree's tattered, blood-stained tunic.
The Great Potlatch Riots | Allen Kim Lang
British Dictionary definitions for bloodstained
/ (ˈblʌdˌsteɪnd) /
stained by or covered in blood
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