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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Covered or stained with gore; bloody.
  • adjective Full of or characterized by bloodshed and violence.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Covered with gore or clotted blood; smeared with blood.
  • Bloody; murderous.
  • Resembling gore; bloody-looking.
  • In heraldry, same as gored.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Covered with gore or clotted blood.
  • adjective Bloody; murderous.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective covered with blood, very bloody
  • adjective unpleasant

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective covered with blood
  • adjective accompanied by bloodshed

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