bloodstained

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bloodstained

  • /ˈblʌdˌsteɪnd/ US

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Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃-der.?

Proto-Germanic *blōþą

Proto-West Germanic *blōd

Old English blōd

Middle English blood

English blood

English stained

English bloodstained

From blood + stained.

adjective more bloodstained · most bloodstained · blood-stained

  1. Stained, spotted or otherwise discolored with blood.
  2. Having the color of something which has been stained with blood.
  3. Responsible for the deaths of others; guilty of murder. This self-delusion is even more the case with Trotsky, whose bloodstained intolerance is generally passed over because the 1960s student generation pretended then, and pretends still, that Trotsky was in some way a freedom-loving, Gulag-free alternative to Stalin.
  4. broadly Guilty of wrongdoing.

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