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Adjective

Covered or smeared in blood

Running with blood, especially from a wound or injury

Involving or characterized by bloodshed, gore or violence

Used to express anger, annoyance, or shock, or simply for emphasis

Involving or showing gore, violence and bloodshed

Exhausting all effort

Not fully cooked

Ould or piffling

Containing or tinged with blood

Unpleasantly bright in color, creating a harsh or unnatural effect

Having a reddish skin tone, suggestive of good health of negative emotions

Without regret or guilt

Complete or absolute

Adverb

To a great extent or degree

Verb

To cause damage to, or have a diminishing effect on

To hurt or injure someone physically, mentally or emotionally

To show shyness, embarrassment, or shame by becoming red in the face

Noun

A cocktail made from vodka, tomato juice, and other spices or flavorings

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Covered or smeared in blood

“Many a warrior was slain in battle, mangled by the spear and clad In bloody armor.”

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Running with blood, especially from a wound or injury

“Many folks, including parents, may have cringed at the sight of the guy with a bloody nose on the cover of his latest album.”

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Involving or characterized by bloodshed, gore or violence

knock-down-and-drag-out

uncivilised^UK

uncivilized^US

intensely competitive

every person for themselves

terrorizing^US

terrorising^UK

with a heart of stone

unsavoury^UK

unsavory^US

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“The men were sentenced to death for leading a bloody coup in 1983 in which the Bishop and four of his Cabinet members were killed.”

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Used to express anger, annoyance, or shock, or simply for emphasis

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“Stop being a bloody idiot and behave yourself.”

Adjective

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Involving or showing gore, violence and bloodshed

demoralized^US

demoralised^UK

sombre^UK

somber^US

unsavoury^UK

unsavory^US

agonizing^US

agonising^UK

ill-favored^US

terrorizing^US

terrorising^UK

humourless^UK

humorless^US

fetid^US

like the back end of a bus

foetid^UK

gray^US

grey^UK

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Exhausting all effort

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Not fully cooked

Adjective

Ould or piffling

Adjective

Containing or tinged with blood

sanguinolent

Adjective

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Unpleasantly bright in color, creating a harsh or unnatural effect

colourful^UK

colorful^US

flakey^US

flaky^UK

like an explosion in a paint factory

looking like an explosion in a paint factory

pizzazz^US

pzazz^UK

multicolour^UK

multicolor^US

colored^US

coloured^UK

jewelled^UK

jeweled^US

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Adjective

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Having a reddish skin tone, suggestive of good health of negative emotions

colored^US

coloured^UK

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Adjective

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Without regret or guilt

with a heart of stone

having a killer instinct

gray^US

grey^UK

at each other's throats

with a hide like an elephant

toughened by experience

as tough as old boots

demoralised^UK

demoralized^US

terrorizing^US

terrorising^UK

red in tooth and claw

uncivilised^UK

uncivilized^US

unsavoury^UK

unsavory^US

rubbing the wrong way

paralysed^UK

paralyzed^US

cool, calm and collected

without a care in the world

not giving a toss

knock-down-and-drag-out

like a bull in a china shop

ill-mannered

ill-bred

not giving a monkey's

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Adjective

Complete or absolute

focused^US

focussed^UK

without qualification

immediate

to the exclusion of everything else

lock stock and barrel

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Adverb

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To a great extent or degree

to too great an extent

one hundred per cent

too much

in excess

to too great an degree

by a considerable amount

loads

sizeably

heaps

tons^US

tonnes^UK

from the bottom of your heart

marvelously^US

to too great a degree

out of all proportion

to the greatest degree

best

to the highest degree

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“In comparison to Glasgow, its bloody cold here.”

Verb

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To cause damage to, or have a diminishing effect on

vandalize^US

vandalise^UK

discolour^UK

discolor^US

destabilize^US

paralyze^US

paralyse^UK

jeopardize^US

jeopardise^UK

destabilise^UK

rain on someone's parade

put out of commission

throw a monkey wrench into

drive a nail into the coffin of

traumatize^US

brutalize^US

pulverize^US

brutalise^UK

pulverise^UK

traumatise^UK

dishonour^UK

dishonor^US

demoralise^UK

demoralize^US

victimize^US

vaporize^US

victimise^UK

be disadvantageous to

vaporise^UK

have a negative effect on

throw a spanner in the works

leave desolate

throw a monkey wrench in the works of

put someone's life on the line

color^US

colour^UK

sour

eradicate

crumple

be a blot on the landscape

pull the rug out from under

bastardise^UK

bastardize^US

minimize^US

minimise^UK

agonize^US

cause the sacrifice of

agonise^UK

strike at the foundations

have a negative impact on

treat with disrespect

commit sacrilege

splinter

commit sacrilege against

knock the stuffing out of

pummelled^UK

pummel^US

knock the bottom out of

make an impression on

tug at your heartstrings

put under suspicion

sell out

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To hurt or injure someone physically, mentally or emotionally

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To show shyness, embarrassment, or shame by becoming red in the face

colour^UK

color^US

go as red as a beetroot

be suffused with colour

smolder^US

smoulder^UK

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A cocktail made from vodka, tomato juice, and other spices or flavorings

bloody mary

“It wasn't bloody, where they had managed to peck through the skin, but the tissue had the foamy texture of worm-rotten wood.”

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