blooded
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8.5
- adjective
- /ˈblʌdɪd/
:
de pura sangre
- Young Bear is a full-blooded, fully enrolled member of the Mesquakie settlement near Tama, Iowa.
- full-blooded
- blooded animals
Hitler had different theories about what made one pure blooded in the race essentialist view of our liberal contemporaries.
- Hitler had different theories about what made one pure blooded in the race essentialist view of our liberal contemporaries.
- My dad is a full blooded Mexican man.
Examples
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Born to a full blooded English woman and AUS army Sergeant in England.
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My dad is a full blooded Mexican man.
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I'm a red blooded American and I love the soil.
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So I did what any normal, red-blooded American would do.
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And after a while, he did what any red-blooded American boy would do.
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Look, Ma, I'm a real red-blooded American boy, and I can prove it.
Fiction book (1992) -
You're a young, red-blooded guy, and that is a very pretty girl.
Fiction book (2002) -
He may be a little lost and confused, but deep down he's an all-American, red-blooded male.
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She is a blooded horse, descended from champions and known for her racing skills.
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The blooded dog showed its pedigree papers, proving its lineage is of the highest quality.
Synonyms
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5.0
Having parents and ancestors all from the same race or breed
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7.2
A person or animal whose parents both come from the same group
An animal whose parents and grandparents are the same breed with papers showing no mixing
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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3.7
An animal whose body temperature changes with the air or water temperature
- Specialized
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3.5
An animal that keeps a steady temperature inside its body, like humans and birds
How Purebred
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Blooded comes from blood, which long ago was used to mean 'family' or 'breeding', so blooded describes an animal with a pure family line. Think of words like pure-blood or blue-blood, which show the same idea of a pure family line.