blooded
English
Etymology
From Middle English bloded, equivalent to blood + -ed.
Adjective
blooded (not comparable)
- Experienced.
- I'll let a rookie march behind me with a loaded weapon once he's been blooded in combat, until then he stays in front where I can see which way he's pointing.
- Descended from.
- He's a full-blooded Apache.
- bloody, bleeding.
- 2011 October 29, Neil Johnston, “Norwich 3 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC Sport:
- Blackburn's cause was not helped when Morten Gamst Pedersen and Gael Givet collided going for the same ball, both players emerging blooded and dazed but otherwise unharmed.
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- (zoology, of horses, cattle, etc.) derived from ancestors of good blood; having a good pedigree.
Derived terms
- blue-blooded
- cold-blooded
- full-blooded
- half-blooded
- hot-blooded
- red-blooded
- same-blooded
- warm-blooded
Verb
blooded
- simple past tense and past participle of blood