blooded

1. 1
   adjective

   Having a body that controls its blood temperature in a certain way, as in warm-blooded or cold-blooded animals.

   Like a heater that keeps a room warm on its own, or a room that only warms up from the sun outside.

   Birds and mammals are warm-blooded, so they stay warm even in cold weather.

   A lizard is cold-blooded and needs the sun to warm up.

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2. 2
   adjectivefiguratively

   Having a certain kind of nature or mood, like hot-blooded people who get angry fast.

   Like calling someone 'fiery' because they get angry very quickly.

   He is hot-blooded and starts arguments over small things.

   She stayed cold-blooded and calm even when everyone else panicked.

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3. 3
   adjectivefiguratively

   Having a certain share of ancestry from a group, as in full-blooded or half-blooded.

   Like saying a drink is made entirely from oranges, or only half from oranges.

   She is full-blooded Irish on her mother's side.

   The puppy is half-blooded, part collie and part something else.

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4. 4
   adjective

   Having real experience, especially from having been in battle.

   Like a player who has finally played in a real match, not just practice.

   The veteran sergeant trusted his blooded soldiers to stay calm under fire.

   Only blooded troops were sent to hold the forward position.

   Similarseasoned, experienced, battle-hardened, veteran, hardened

   Oppositeunblooded

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5. 5
   verb

   Past tense and past participle of blood. Use this form for something that already happened.

   The old hunter blooded his son after the boy's first deer.

   New soldiers were blooded in a small battle before the main attack.

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6. 6
   adjectivederogatoryfiguratively

   Having a certain family background, used in an unkind or insulting way.

   Like insulting someone by saying their family is 'not good enough.'

   He sneered and called the newcomer base-blooded in front of everyone.

   The snobbish family treated their cousin as low-blooded and unworthy.

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   adjective

   Coming from a line of fine, pure-bred animals.

   Like a dog with papers showing its parents and grandparents were all the same special breed.

   The rancher paid a high price for blooded cattle.

   These blooded horses come from champion bloodlines.

   Similarpedigree, purebred, pedigreed, thoroughbred

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   adjective

   Covered in blood, or bleeding from a wound.

   Like a cloth that has soaked up red from a deep cut.

   His blooded knuckles showed he had been in a fight.

   The hunter wiped his blooded blade on the wet grass.

   Similarbloodied, bloody, bleeding

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