bloodying
SayBLUD-ee-ing/ˈblʌ.diː.ɪŋ/
- 1Present participle and gerund of bloody.
A thorny branch caught her arm, bloodying the sleeve of her white shirt.
The leaked emails are bloodying the senator's reelection campaign.
Note
The -ing form keeps the y of bloody unchanged and often adds a result to a clause, as in fell hard, bloodying his knee. Every meaning takes an object: the thing stained, the opponent cut in a fight, or the rival's cause damaged. The mild intensifier heard in Britain, Ireland and the Commonwealth is an adjective, so it never turns up in this form.
bloodying is a form of bloody
bloody, verb: To make someone bleed, as in a fight, or to stain something with blood. Full entry
- Spelling
- bloody → bloodying: add -ing
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