blooded

[bluhd-id]

adjective

1. having blood of a specified kind (used in combination).

   warm-blooded animals.

2. (of horses, cattle, etc.) derived from ancestors of good blood; having a good pedigree.

blooded

/ ˈblʌdɪd /

adjective

1. (of horses, cattle, etc) of good breeding

2. (in combination) having blood or temperament as specified

   hot-blooded, cold-blooded, warm-blooded, red-blooded, blue-blooded

Other Word Forms

• well-blooded adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of blooded¹

Middle English word dating back to 1200–50; blood, -ed ³

Example Sentences

But the president pulled Isaacman’s nomination in May – the same week Musk departed his role in Washington — calling the Musk ally a “blue blooded Democrat, who had never contributed to a Republican before.”

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The murders Parle is wanted in connection with were both considered "cold blooded executions" by detectives and involved shotgun blasts at close range.

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A mother was stabbed to death in a "cold blooded, calculated, premeditated murder" as she pushed her baby in a pram, a court has heard.

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He showed me a picture of him in a hospital bed, taken an hour after the explosion, with his face burned, entirely blooded, covered with bandages.

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The late 1970s saw Italy blooded by violence by extreme right-wing and extreme left-wing proponents.

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