blood
blood is a 5-letter English word with 20 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The fluid which circulates in the principal vascular system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of the body, and bringing away waste products to be excreted. See under Arterial. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. The fluid which circulates in the principal vascular system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of the body, and bringing away waste products to be excreted. See under Arterial.
- noun. Relationship by descent from a common ancestor; consanguinity; kinship.
- noun. Descent; lineage; especially, honorable birth; the highest royal lineage.
- noun. Descent from parents of recognized breed; excellence or purity of breed.
- noun. The fleshy nature of man.
- noun. The shedding of blood; the taking of life, murder; manslaughter; destruction.
- noun. A bloodthirsty or murderous disposition.
- noun. Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions; -- as if the blood were the seat of emotions.
- noun. A man of fire or spirit; a fiery spark; a gay, showy man; a rake.
- noun. The juice of anything, especially if red.
- transitive verb. To bleed.
- transitive verb. To stain, smear or wet, with blood.
- transitive verb. To give (hounds or soldiers) a first taste or sight of blood, as in hunting or war.
- transitive verb. To heat the blood of; to exasperate.
- noun. temperament or disposition
"a person of hot blood"
- noun. the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets
"blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the tissues and carries away waste products"
"the ancients believed that blood was the seat of the emotions"
- noun. people viewed as members of a group
"we need more young blood in this organization"
- noun. the descendants of one individual
"his entire lineage has been warriors"
- noun. a dissolute man in fashionable society
- verb. smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill
Synonyms
ancestry, bloodline, descent, line, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock, profligate, rake, rakehell, rip, roue
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in blood:
Common word forms
bloods, blooded, blooding, bloodless
Words from these letters
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