† forbleedv.
Obsolete.
In past participle forˈbled adj. exhausted with bleeding; covered with blood.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [adjective] > of blood > bleeding > exhausted with bleeding
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [adjective] > stained > stained or smeared with blood
redOE
bloodyOE
drearyOE
weta1300
bloodedc1300
bleedingc1305
forbled1387
gory?a1500
cruent1524
purpled1561
brued1563
beweltered1565
bloodied1566
beblubbered1582
purple1590
bloodstained1594
ensanguined1628
blood-bedabbled1629
cruentous1648
cruentate1661
begored1683
sanguined1700
bluggy1876
1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VII. 35 He was i~drawe al aboute þe feeldes..al forbled.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 24395 Quen þat mi sun was al for-bled.
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur x. xxx Sir Tristram waxte faynte and forbledde.
1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) vi. xv. 257/2 He sente home his sharte full of woundes and of holes and all forbleded.
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 306 All the laif, rycht bludie and forbled, Tha left the feild.
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