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) .