ensanguine

American  

[en-sang-gwin] / ɛnˈsæŋ gwɪn /

verb (used with object)

ensanguined, ensanguining

1. to stain or cover with or as with blood.

   a flag ensanguined with the blood of battle.

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ensanguine British  

/ ɪnˈsæŋɡwɪn /

verb

1. literary (tr) to cover or stain with or as with blood

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Etymology

Origin of ensanguine

First recorded in 1660–70; en- ¹ + sanguine

Example Sentences

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ensanguine ensanguined

His eyelids were inflamed, and but served to ensanguine the bitter and cold-blazing intensity of the pupils. 

From The Mutiny of the Elsinore by Jack London

But in the attempt to incarnate and ensanguine it I failed wretchedly.

From Seven Men by Sir Max Beerbohm

"It's a cinnabar boat," said Nivin as they stared down at that silent crew of ensanguined devils.

From Where the Pavement Ends by John Russell

His nerves, shattered by the tremendous strain of the year, the fevers, the disillusions, the unprofitable shiftings of standpoint, painted the prospect as black as they had formerly ensanguined it.

From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill

I did not come upon Jim Gray, the slab-sided one, in Port Lawson, so was unable to bid him mind his ensanguined p's and q's.

From The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by A. J. (Alec John) Dawson

"But the name gives such an ensanguined suggestion," she objected.

From The Storm Centre by Mary Noailles Murfree

Thomas, Lord Erskine, expressed himself as follows:— “On Waterloo’s ensanguined plain Lie tens of thousands of the slain; But none by sabre or by shot Fell half so flat as Walter Scott.”

From Literary Byways by William Andrews