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bloodful

bloodful adjective: full of blood.

Adjective

bloodful (comparative more bloodful, superlative most bloodful)

  1. Full of blood.
    • Oh, cruel, bloodful chum of awful war, / Of soldier ills the most pestiferous, far; / Oh, crawling, creeping, clawing, biting pest, / Of camp and bivouac, the bane of rest![1890?], I[saac] R[uth] Sherwood, “The Grayback”, in Cha[rle]s L. Cummings, compiler, The Great War Relic. Together with a Sketch of My Life, Service in the Army, and How I Lost My Feet since the...
    • But Mam, Mam, what about that stark and wormy Sir Libogran, that . . . dragocidal maniac? Did he really live hoppishly ever after as well, unhaunted by his bloodful crime?2009, Tad Williams, “A Stark and Wormy Knight”, in Jack Dann, Gardner Dozois, editors, The Dragon Book, New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 232

Forms of bloodful

comparativemore bloodful
superlativemost bloodful

Origin of bloodful

From blood + -ful.

Questions about bloodful

What does bloodful mean?
Bloodful means full of blood.
What part of speech is bloodful?
Bloodful is an adjective.

Words near bloodful in the dictionary

  1. bloodflower
  2. bloodflowers
  3. bloodflows
  4. bloodfluke
  5. bloodflukes
  6. bloodful
  7. Bloodgate
  8. Bloodgood
  9. Bloodgoods
  10. bloodguilt
  11. bloodguiltiness

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