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blood-stained

blood-stained is the alternative spelling of bloodstained.

Meaning of bloodstained

Adjective

bloodstained (comparative more bloodstained, superlative most bloodstained)

  1. Stained, spotted or otherwise discolored with blood.
    Synonyms:
    bloody
  2. Having the color of something which has been stained with blood.
  3. Responsible for the deaths of others; guilty of murder.
    • This self-delusion is even more the case with Trotsky, whose bloodstained intolerance is generally passed over because the 1960s student generation pretended then, and pretends still, that Trotsky was in some way a freedom-loving, Gulag-free alternative to Stalin.2010, Peter Hitchens, The Cameron Delusion, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN
  4. (broadly) Guilty of wrongdoing.

Forms of blood-stained

comparativemore blood-stained
superlativemost blood-stained

Phrases with blood-stained

Questions about blood-stained

What is blood-stained the alternative spelling of?
Blood-stained is the alternative spelling of bloodstained.

Words near blood-stained in the dictionary

  1. blood-red slave-maker
  2. blood-red slave-makers
  3. blood-redder
  4. blood-reddest
  5. blood-soaked
  6. blood-stained
  7. blood-stained cockatoo
  8. blood-stained cockatoos
  9. blood-sucker
  10. blood-suckers
  11. blood-sucking

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