Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To cover or stain with or as if with blood.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To stain or cover with blood; smear with gore.
- To color like blood; impart a crimson color to.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To stain or cover with blood; to make bloody, or of a blood-red color.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb to
stain withblood
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Examples
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His eyelids were inflamed, and but served to ensanguine the bitter and cold-blazing intensity of the pupils.
CHAPTER XIV 2010
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His eyelids were inflamed, and but served to ensanguine the bitter and cold-blazing intensity of the pupils.
Chapter 14 1914
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But in the attempt to incarnate and ensanguine it I failed wretchedly.
Seven Men Max Beerbohm 1914
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But because the blind boy's shaft, designed to work inward ever deeper and deeper until it reached the heart's core, did now but ensanguine itself, he made no cry nor any sign of that sweet hurt.
Sir Mortimer Mary Johnston 1903
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Whether it be the boudoir of a strumpet or the death-bed of a monarch -- the strong character of a statesman-warrior abounding in contrasts and rich in mystery, or the personal history of a judge trained in the Old Bailey to vulgarize and ensanguine the King's Bench -- he luxuriates with a vigour and variety of language and illustration which renders his "History" an attractive and absorbing story-book.
Famous Reviews R. Brimley Johnson 1899
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His eyelids were inflamed, and but served to ensanguine the bitter and cold-blazing intensity of the pupils.
The Mutiny of the Elsinore Jack London 1896
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This would not cut his hat or ensanguine his band.
Historical Mysteries Andrew Lang 1878
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Thy milder terrors, Night, I frequent woo, Thy silent lightnings, and thy meteor’s glare, Thy northern fires, bright with ensanguine hue, That light in heaven’s high vault the fervid air.
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"But at the same time, Sire, the chamber of representatives will not show itself less eager, to proclaim its sentiments and its principles with regard to the terrible conflict, that threatens to ensanguine the fields of Europe.
Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II Pierre Alexandre ��douard Fleury de Chaboulon 1807
madmouth commented on the word ensanguine
...for again in unensanguined billows hundreds of leagues away, his unsullied jet would once more be seen.
-Melville, "Moby-Dick"
June 4, 2009