Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Clotted or clogged with blood.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Obs. & R. Having the hair matted with clotted blood.
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Examples
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It is nothing less than surrender dressed up in deepest, blood-boltered hypocrisy.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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It is nothing less than surrender dressed up in deepest, blood-boltered hypocrisy.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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It is nothing less than surrender dressed up in deepest, blood-boltered hypocrisy.
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Bring near the blood-boltered corpses of those hapless chiefs, foully slain by foes unworthy, with whom lay the decision of the contest.
The Suppliants 2008
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Lucia's final collapse into full-on, blood-boltered insanity, accompanied by the fabulously weird sound of a glass harmonica, is ironically the only time she's really free of the sexual, emotional and physical brutality with which she is tyrannized by her brother, her lover and her pastor.
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Bring near the blood-boltered corpses of those hapless chiefs, foully slain by foes unworthy, with whom lay the decision of the contest.
The Suppliants 2008
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Lucia's final collapse into full-on, blood-boltered insanity, accompanied by the fabulously weird sound of a glass harmonica, is ironically the only time she's really free of the sexual, emotional and physical brutality with which she is tyrannized by her brother, her lover and her pastor.
An operatic treat 2008
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Thereat he grew abusive, taunting me with my mother's murder and those blood-boltered fiends.
Andromache 2007
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Thereat he grew abusive, taunting me with my mother's murder and those blood-boltered fiends.
Andromache 2007
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I feel myself blood-boltered; then I look back on my cleared grass, and count myself an ally in a fair quarrel, and make stout my heart.
Vailima Letters 2005
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