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  • adjective Resembling blood.

Etymologies

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blood +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Numerous bloodlike, gelatinous stains pinwheeled hypnotically at either end of the long window, like two giants outside the school had blown their brains out against the glass.

    Bleeding Violet Dia Reeves 2010

  • From several of the holes dripped the thick, bloodlike fluid.

    WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE Richard A. Knaak 2010

  • In the four versions in this show (others exist), we see the original black-and-white litho from the Epstein collection, and then the full Draculette treatment it gets a year or so later, in a hand-colored impression from the gallery's own holdings: Munch prints his litho onto ghoulish green paper, then brushes the woman's hair in orange-red so that it can drip bloodlike down her victim.

    At National Gallery, Edvard Munch's 'Prints' reveal artist's methodical process 2010

  • Numerous bloodlike, gelatinous stains pinwheeled hypnotically at either end of the long window, like two giants outside the school had blown their brains out against the glass.

    Bleeding Violet Dia Reeves 2010

  • From several of the holes dripped the thick, bloodlike fluid.

    WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE Richard A. Knaak 2010

  • From several of the holes dripped the thick, bloodlike fluid.

    WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE Richard A. Knaak 2010

  • A bloodlike substance, dark and tarry, seemed to be leaking from the diadem.

    Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007

  • A bloodlike substance, dark and tarry, seemed to be leaking from the diadem.

    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007

  • They did nothing but weep and wail until bloodlike tears rolled down their cheeks in torrents.

    Asian-Pacific Folktales and Legends Jeannette L. Faurot 1995

  • Her hands, face, and hair were smeared with bloodlike ravioli sauce while she zoned out on the goddamn purple dinosaur hopping around on a pogo stick.

    The Town Chuck Hogan 2004

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