Blood definition
Blood is a noun meaning "the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets." It has 6 meanings, as a noun and a verb, listed below with example sentences.
- Part of speech
- noun, verb
- Syllables
- 1
- Letters
- 5
- How common
- Everyday word
Blood as a noun
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"
temperament or disposition
"a person of hot blood"
a dissolute man in fashionable society
Same sense: rip, rake, profligate, roue, rakehell
the hereditary derivation of an individual
Same sense: line, blood line, stock, origin, descent, line of descent, ancestry, lineage
people viewed as members of a group
"we need more young blood in this organization"
Blood as a verb
smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill
Synonyms and antonyms
- rip
- rake
- profligate
- roue
- rakehell
- line definition
- blood line
- stock
- origin
- descent
- line of descent
- ancestry
- lineage
How to say blood
Blood has 1 syllable and rhymes with flood. Syllable counts and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.
Words that rhyme with blood
- flood
- mud
- bud
- stud
- rudd
- dud
- thud
- spud
- lifeblood
- crud
- scud
- redbud
BLOOD in word games
- Scrabble
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Anagrams
- 0
Is BLOOD a valid Scrabble word? Yes, it is in the ENABLE list most word games use. Check BLOOD in the word checker, or unscramble BLOOD to see the shorter words in its letters.
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