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shed blood

shed blood verb: to kill or wound, or be wounded or killed, in violence.

Verb

shed blood (third-person singular simple present sheds blood, present participle shedding blood, simple past and past participle shed blood)

  1. (idiomatic) To kill or wound, or be wounded or killed, in violence.
    • For he to day that sheds his blood with me, / Shall be my brother:1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

shed blood meaning in Arabic

shed blood in Arabic

Translations
سَفَكَ الدَّمَ safaka d-dama

Forms of shed blood

third-person singular presentsheds blood
present participleshedding blood
past participleshed blood
pastshed blood

Questions about shed blood

What does shed blood mean?
Shed blood means to kill or wound, or be wounded or killed, in violence.
What is shed blood in Arabic?
Shed blood in Arabic is سَفَكَ الدَّمَ (safaka d-dama). See Shed blood meaning in Arabic.
What part of speech is shed blood?
Shed blood is a verb.
What is the past tense of shed blood?
The past tense of shed blood is shed blood.

Words near shed blood in the dictionary

  1. shecocks
  2. sheconomies
  3. sheconomy
  4. shed
  5. shed a tear
  6. shed blood
  7. shed find
  8. shed finds
  9. shed light on
  10. shed light upon
  11. shed load

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