blooded
adjective
- possess/contain blood, heritage sense
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈblʌ.dəd/
adj
Etymology: From Middle English bloded, equivalent to blood + -ed.
- bloody, bleeding.
“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.”
- Experienced (especially in warfare).
“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.”
- Following a modifying word in a compound:
“Mammals are warm-blooded.”
- Following a modifying word in a compound:
“Only a cold-blooded killer could have done something like this.”
- Following a modifying word in a compound:
“He's a full-blooded Irishman.”
- Following a modifying word in a compound:
“A blue-blooded aristocrat.”
- Derived from ancestors of good blood; having a good pedigree.
verb
Etymology: From Middle English bloded, equivalent to blood + -ed.
- simple past and past participle of blood