Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Swelled or suffused with blood: as, “their blood-swoln eyes,”
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Examples
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Her weight has always fluctuated—as does mine—and now her body looks like a blood-swollen tick on two toothpick legs.
Dirty Secret Jessie Sholl 2011
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I REALLY think that's a giant, blood-swollen tick on it-missing a few legs.
Hail, Hailoween! 2009
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Again to see her form distorted by dying agonies, her blood-swollen veins, her livid countenance, her eyes bursting from their sockets with pain!
The Monk 2004
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War, the red animal, war, the blood-swollen god, would have bloated fill.
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They were going to look at war, the red animal -- war, the blood-swollen god.
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War, the red animal, war, the blood-swollen god, would have bloated fill.
The Red Badge of Courage Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900 1895
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They were going to look at war, the red animal — war, the blood-swollen god.
The Red Badge of Courage Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900 1895
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War, the red animal, war, the blood-swollen god, would have bloated fill.
The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane 1885
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They were going to look at war, the red animal -- war, the blood-swollen god.
The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane 1885
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War, the red animal, war, the blood-swollen god, would have bloated fill.
The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane 1885
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