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blood money

blood money noun: money that is obtained at the cost of another's life.

Noun

blood money (uncountable)

  1. (informal) Money that is obtained at the cost of another's life.
    • Judas: I don't want your blood money!
      Caiaphas: Oh, that doesn't matter: our expenses are good.
      Judas: I don't need your blood money!
      Annas: But you might as well take it; we think that you should.1970, “Damned for All Time / Blood Money”, in Tim Rice (lyrics), Andrew Lloyd Webber (music), Jesus Christ Superstar
  2. Money paid (as by a killer or the killer's clan) to the family of a person who has been killed.

blood money meaning in Urdu and Kannada

blood money in Urdu

دیت, خون بہا

blood money in Kannada

ಮುಯ್ಯಿಹಣ, ಕೊಲೆಹಣ

Questions about blood money

What does blood money mean?
Blood money means money that is obtained at the cost of another's life.
What is blood money in Urdu?
Blood money in Urdu is دیت, خون بہا. See Blood money meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is blood money?
Blood money is a noun.

Words near blood money in the dictionary

  1. blood loss
  2. blood lust
  3. blood lusts
  4. blood mage
  5. blood mages
  6. blood money
  7. blood moon
  8. blood moons
  9. blood nose
  10. blood noses
  11. blood orange

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blood money (page history and authors); blood money (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); blood money (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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