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bloodhungry

bloodhungry adjective: eager to kill or shed blood.

Adjective

bloodhungry (comparative more bloodhungry, superlative most bloodhungry)

  1. Eager to kill or shed blood.
    • Duane Jones, who played the last survivor in George Romero's classic Night of the Living Dead, is the bloodhungry lead of Ganja and Hess, a dark and smoky 1973 classic of black horror cinema directed by Pill Gunn.1988 October 7, Achy Obejas, “Calendar”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2016
    • They were one bloodhungry entity.2006, Kelly Ethan, The Beast Within, →ISBN, page 5

Forms of bloodhungry

comparativemore bloodhungry
superlativemost bloodhungry

Origin of bloodhungry

From blood + hungry.

Questions about bloodhungry

What does bloodhungry mean?
Bloodhungry means eager to kill or shed blood.
What part of speech is bloodhungry?
Bloodhungry is an adjective.

Words near bloodhungry in the dictionary

  1. bloodhounding
  2. bloodhoundish
  3. bloodhounds
  4. bloodhouse
  5. bloodhouses
  6. bloodhungry
  7. bloodied
  8. bloodied nose
  9. bloodied noses
  10. bloodied up
  11. bloodied-up

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