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

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Example Sentences

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ensanguine ensanguined

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

From Seven Men by Sir Max Beerbohm

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

From 'midst these walls, whose ruins spread around, And scattered clods that heap the ensanguined ground, Three thousand souls of warriors, dead in fight, To better regions took their happy flight.

From Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

It needed only Fowle’s ensanguined visage to complete the circle of reasoning.

From The Bartlett Mystery by Louis Tracy

Walpole's advice prevailed, and the boy prince fleshed his maiden sword without giving occasion to George the Second to seek the ensanguined laurels for which he told Walpole he had long been thirsting.

From A History of the Four Georges, Volume II by Justin McCarthy

He fought at Chippewa—bled at the side of the gallant Lawrence—and nearly laid down his life on the ensanguined plains of Marengo.

From Tales for Fifteen by James Fenimore Cooper

Yet, with cheek ensanguined, Gay at heart she goes On the great adventure Where the north wind blows.

From Later Poems by Bliss Carman

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