I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bloody/bloodless coup (= with or without killing and violence )
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In 1974, the regime was overthrown in a bloodless coup.
bloody but unbowed
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After the fight, Ali was bloody but unbowed .
Bloody Mary
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a bloody nose
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Even the bloody weather stayed nice!
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Finding out things in my line of business isn't like going to the bloody public library.
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He begins his career as a boy with gruesome, bloody experiments on live animals.
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He was holding a stout branch, and impaled upon it was the bloody head of the leopard.
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It got to be a bloody bind.
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Shah Jehan had himself come to power twelve years earlier after a bloody civil war.
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The restaurant smelled of bloody meat and salad dressing.
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Yeltsin has entered an electoral contest that may be less bloody but even harder for him to win.
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
battle
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On the forward slopes of this mountain, towards Monfalcone, terrible and bloody battles had been fought.
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Llewellyn created another Saunderson legend in the midst of that bloody battle .
business
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It was a bloody business , but the rules were the rules.
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I do believe this bloody business betrays the involvement of our old friend Professor Lionel Atwill.
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A fight on the ground against gunmen familiar with their local hills and woods can be a bloody business .
murder
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That bloody Murder Squad of yours can't exist for ever.
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We were both in a position to scream bloody murder .
nose
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Actress Robin Givens gave the man a bloody nose after he mistook her for a hooker while she was filming in Chicago.
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One of them has a bloody nose that looks like a bloody mouth, all red.
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Those who take that risk will get a bloody nose .
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His opponents always ended up with bloody noses .
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Millions of pounds are at stake and one side is certain to receive a bloody nose .
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A 17 and 18 year old escaped with no more than bloody noses .
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As John Major said, they've given us a bloody nose .
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Unfortunately for him, Alfred had been well trained and Bastide staggered back, clutching a bloody nose .
war
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Two bloody wars and we're still content to snooze and let that lot get on with it.
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He almost single-handedly brokered a peace deal with secessionist rebels in Chechnya last fall, thereby ending an inordinately bloody war .
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There is now a horrific and bloody war being waged within me.
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Let somebody else take on Johnny and his bloody war , she thought viciously.
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First of all turn one's back on the bloody war , then qualify for some career.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He begins his career as a boy with gruesome, bloody experiments on live animals.
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He was holding a stout branch, and impaled upon it was the bloody head of the leopard.
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Shah Jehan had himself come to power twelve years earlier after a bloody civil war.
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The restaurant smelled of bloody meat and salad dressing.
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Yeltsin has entered an electoral contest that may be less bloody but even harder for him to win.
III. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The boy punched Jack and bloodied his nose.