Blood - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |blʌd|  American pronunciation of the word blood
Brit.  |blʌd|  British pronunciation of the word blood

noun

- the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets
blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the tissues and carries away waste products
the ancients believed that blood was the seat of the emotions
- temperament or disposition
a person of hot blood
- a dissolute man in fashionable society (syn: profligate, rake, rakehell, rip, roue)
- the descendants of one individual (syn: ancestry, bloodline, descent, line, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock)
- people viewed as members of a group
we need more young blood in this organization

verb

- smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill

Extra examples

The accident victim has already lost a lot of blood.

She lost a lot of blood in the accident.

The dog bit her but didn't draw blood.

I'm going to give blood this afternoon.

Cooked garlic helps to prevent blood clotting, and so reduces the risk of heart attack.

Dried blood matted his hair on each side of his head.

My trousers were caked with blood.

Her body was found in a pool of blood .

A single drop of blood can transport the virus.

Blood oozed from a cut on his forehead.

Blood tests proved he was not the father.

There's Irish blood on his mother's side.

He rolled and wallowed in kill, he let life "blood" him.

With your permission, we can take a blood test.

The blood coursing through my veins

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