as in bloody
smeared or stained with blood
had to throw away the bloodstained washcloth after a particularly bad nosebleed
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The bloodstained week began last Sunday afternoon when a 52-year-old man was fatally shot in the head during a mugging, cops said.
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Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 27 July 2024
Those materials can include everything from evidence logs, crime scene sketches and photos of the victim’s torn or bloodstained clothing to the evidence Papakanakis is always hoping to find — DNA.
—Taylor Hartz, Hartford Courant, 22 Apr. 2024
So were the fellow migrants tortured in a bloodstained Libyan prison.
—Elian Peltier Annika Hammerschlag, New York Times, 18 May 2024
The bloodstained British, Polish and Australian passports of the World Central Kitchen aid workers killed on Monday.
—Gabe Joselow, NBC News, 6 Apr. 2024
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Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 27 July 2024
Those materials can include everything from evidence logs, crime scene sketches and photos of the victim’s torn or bloodstained clothing to the evidence Papakanakis is always hoping to find — DNA.
—Taylor Hartz, Hartford Courant, 22 Apr. 2024
So were the fellow migrants tortured in a bloodstained Libyan prison.
—Elian Peltier Annika Hammerschlag, New York Times, 18 May 2024
The bloodstained British, Polish and Australian passports of the World Central Kitchen aid workers killed on Monday.
—Gabe Joselow, NBC News, 6 Apr. 2024
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“Bloodstained.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloodstained. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.
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