blood

Nouns

• (n) 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
• (n) temperament or disposition
  • a person of hot blood
• (n) a dissolute man in fashionable society profligate, rake, rakehell, rip, roue,
• (n) the descendants of one individual
  • his entire lineage has been warriors
  ancestry, bloodline, blood line, lineage, pedigree, line of descent, stemma, parentage, descent, origin, stock, line,
• (n) people viewed as members of a group
  • we need more young blood in this organization

Verbs

• (v) smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill

Synonyms

Words of close approximity