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bloodying up

bloodying up is the present participle and gerund of bloody up.

Meaning of bloody up

Verb

bloody up (third-person singular simple present bloodies up, present participle bloodying up, simple past and past participle bloodied up)

  1. (transitive) To make bloody; to cover in blood

Questions about bloodying up

What is bloodying up the present participle and gerund of?
Bloodying up is the present participle and gerund of bloody up.

Words near bloodying up in the dictionary

  1. bloodybelly comb jelly
  2. bloodyhanded
  3. bloodyhandedly
  4. bloodyhandedness
  5. bloodying
  6. bloodying up
  7. bloodyish
  8. bloodyminded
  9. bloodymindedly
  10. bloodymindedness
  11. bloodynoun

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bloodying up (page history and authors); bloody up (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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