Stained with blood; covered with (also †mid, †of, †to) blood, gore, etc. Also in extended use.

Covered, smeared, or stained with blood; bleeding.

Gory, bloody. Obsolete.

Suffused or covered with blood; dripping or oozing with blood. (Only of wounds, or with explicit mention of blood.)

Marked or covered with blood; bloodstained.

Running or suffused with blood.

In past participle forˈbled adj. exhausted with bleeding; covered with blood.

Covered with gore, stained with blood, bloody.

Bloody; figurative cruel.

Coloured, stained, or tinged purple; †clothed in purple (obsolete); †bloodstained (literal and figurative) (obsolete).

Stained or soaked with blood; = imbrued, adj. a.

Besmeared by weltering (in blood, etc.).

Made bloody; marked or covered with blood; bloodied but unbowed: see unbowed, adj.1 additions.

Disfigured by blubbering; befouled with tears; also (obsolete) with blood.

Chiefly poetic. Of the colour of blood; bloody, bloodstained (literal and figurative).

Stained with blood. Also figurative.

Blood-stained, bloody.

Bloody. (literal and figurative.)

Blood-stained.

stained with blood; of eyes: bloodshot.

= bloody, adj., originally used literally (see quot. 1876), used subsequently as a euphemistic pronunciation of ‘bloody’, esp. to define…