bloodstained
- stained with blood: a bloodstained knife.
- guilty of murder, slaughter, or bloodshed.
Origin of bloodstained
Related Words for blood-stained
sickening, terrifying, dreadful, horrid, eerie, macabre, terrible, bloody, frightful, ghastly, abominable, horrible, awful, gruesome, shocking, appalling, hideous, grim, lurid, disgustingExamples from the Web for blood-stained
Contemporary Examples of blood-stained
The whole figure is clearly legible, except for the feet, which disappear into blood-stained nothingness.
I helped him bury the blood-stained knife and the keys under dirt and stones beside the garden wall.
Outside the palazzo, there are three flags, the European, the Venetian, and the Mexican – the last one is blood-stained.
The improbable and blood-stained scoundrel Joseph Fouché brought down Robespierre and the Reign of Terror in 1794.
Historical Examples of blood-stained
One of them still grasped in his hand his blood-stained weapon.
A Comedy of Marriage and Other TalesGuy De Maupassant
Such but serve the blood-stained cause of our common enemies.
The Burning SpearJohn Galsworthy
Minky asked, without removing his eyes from the blood-stained letter.
The Twins of Suffering CreekRidgwell Cullum
Mussed or blood-stained specimens should not necessarily be discarded.
TaxidermyLeon Luther Pray
“Pity,” he said, his eyes turned again to the blood-stained floor.
The Golden WomanRidgwell Cullum
bloodstained
- stained by or covered in blood