bloodstained
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- adjective
- /ˈblʌdˌsteɪnd/
- The detective found a bloodstained shirt in the suspect's hiding place.
- a bloodstained shirt
- bloodstained clothes
- bloodstained pants
Examples
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Beatrice lies on the ground, her bloodstained face filling the screen.
Fiction book (1998) -
What led me to this is, I found a bloodstained book at the crime scene.
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Speak to us and let us know the truth of that bloodstained night.
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Look, there was a bloodstained dress, only....
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Clutched in her bloodstained hands was this picture.
Fiction book (1998) -
Last of all come the Dervish riders in their bloodstained British uniforms.
Fiction book (2002) -
"Easy!" Alexander said angrily as they tossed her up onto a dirty, bloodstained table.
Fiction book (1998) -
The sun is bright, and his disheveled appearance and bloodstained shirt make him stick out like a sore thumb.
Fiction book (1995) -
His ministrations finished, Austin looked at his bloodstained comrades and shook his head.
Fiction book (1999) -
I knelt in the bloodstained grass holding my gasping bundle until my captor ran up and caught my arm.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
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Covered with blood, for example on clothes or hands
Antonyms
How Covered
Surface Forms
Morphology
bloodstained = bloodstain (transparent) = blood + stain + ed
Formed from the compound noun 'bloodstain' plus the adjectival/past-participle suffix '-ed', yielding the clear meaning 'marked with blood'.
Etymology
Bloodstained is made of two simple parts, blood and stain. A stain is 'a mark' or 'a spot', so bloodstained literally means 'marked with blood', which is why we use it for something covered or marked with blood.