BLOOD


Meaning of BLOOD in English

noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ cold , hot , warm

▪ clotted , congealed , dried

▪ fresh

▪ arterial , venous

▪ menstrual

▪ contaminated

▪ aristocratic , blue , noble , pure , royal

I doubt if I have a single drop of aristocratic ~ in my veins.

▪ African , Irish , Mediterranean , etc.

▪ animal , human

▪ fake

… OF BLOOD

▪ drop , pool , trickle

The body lay in a pool of ~.

A thin trickle of ~ ran down from a cut above her eye.

▪ spots , traces

He worked to remove all traces of ~.

VERB + BLOOD

▪ lose

She'd lost a lot of ~ and doctors decided to do a transfusion.

▪ shed , spill ( literary )

He was a hot-headed youth, always too quick to shed ~.

▪ donate , give

The hospital appealed for more people to donate ~.

▪ pump

The heart pumps ~ around the body.

▪ collect , draw

Samples of ~ were drawn using sterile syringes.

▪ choke on

He choked on his own ~ after being shot in the throat.

▪ smear , wipe

There was ~ smeared down his shirt.

BLOOD + VERB

▪ dribble , drip , flow , gush , ooze , run , seep , splash , spurt , stream , trickle , well , well up

Blood oozed slowly from the corner of his mouth.

▪ spread

The ~ spread rapidly from where he lay.

▪ spatter sth , splatter

Blood spattered the seats of the vehicle.

▪ soak sth , soak into sth

▪ cake sth , stain sth

Dried ~ caked his hands.

▪ clot , coagulate , congeal

▪ circulate

He rubbed his limbs vigorously to get the ~ circulating.

▪ course , rush , surge

I felt the ~ coursing in my veins as I ran.

The ~ rushed to her face as she realized her error.

▪ pound , pulse

The ~ pounded in her ears.

▪ drain

The ~ drained from his face when I told him the news.

▪ freeze , run cold , turn cold , turn to ice

Our ~ ran cold at the thought of how easily we could have been killed.

BLOOD + NOUN

▪ cell

▪ group , type ( esp. AmE )

What ~ group are you? ( BrE )

What ~ type do you have? ( AmE )

▪ sample , test

▪ count

Her white ~ cell count is slightly elevated.

▪ loss

▪ donation , donor

▪ bank

▪ circulation , flow , supply (see also blood pressure , blood vessel )

▪ clot , coagulation

▪ disease , disorder , poisoning

▪ cholesterol , glucose , sugar

▪ transfusion

PREPOSITION

▪ in ~

His shirt was soaked in ~.

▪ in sb's/the ~

Traces of an illegal substance were found in his ~.

▪ ~ from

My handkerchief was soaked in ~ from my nose.

PHRASES

▪ caked in ~ , caked with ~

The dog's fur was caked in ~ when we found him.

▪ covered in ~ , covered with ~

He was lying on the floor, covered in ~.

▪ in cold ~

He shot them in cold ~ (= in a way that was planned and deliberately cruel) .

Oxford Collocations English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь словосочетаний .