- blood
- nounADJECTIVE▪ 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 blood in my veins.
▪ African, Irish, Mediterranean, etc.▪ animal, human▪ fake… OF BLOOD▪ drop, pool, trickle▪The body lay in a pool of blood.
▪A thin trickle of blood ran down from a cut above her eye.
▪ spots, traces▪He worked to remove all traces of blood.
VERB + BLOOD▪ lose▪She'd lost a lot of blood and doctors decided to do a transfusion.
▪ shed, spill (literary)▪He was a hot-headed youth, always too quick to shed blood.
▪ donate, give▪The hospital appealed for more people to donate blood.
▪ pump▪The heart pumps blood around the body.
▪ collect, draw▪Samples of blood were drawn using sterile syringes.
▪ choke on▪He choked on his own blood after being shot in the throat.
▪ smear, wipe▪There was blood 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 blood 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 blood caked his hands.
▪ clot, coagulate, congeal▪ circulate▪He rubbed his limbs vigorously to get the blood circulating.
▪ course, rush, surge▪I felt the blood coursing in my veins as I ran.
▪The blood rushed to her face as she realized her error.
▪ pound, pulse▪The blood pounded in her ears.
▪ drain▪The blood drained from his face when I told him the news.
▪ freeze, run cold, turn cold, turn to ice▪Our blood ran cold at the thought of how easily we could have been killed.
BLOOD + NOUN▪ cell▪ group, type (esp. AmE)▪What blood group are you? (BrE)
▪What blood type do you have? (AmE)
▪ sample, test▪ count▪Her white blood 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▪ transfusionPREPOSITION▪ in blood▪His shirt was soaked in blood.
▪ in sb's/the blood▪Traces of an illegal substance were found in his blood.
▪ blood from▪My handkerchief was soaked in blood from my nose.
PHRASES▪ caked in blood, caked with blood▪The dog's fur was caked in blood when we found him.
▪ covered in blood, covered with blood▪He was lying on the floor, covered in blood.
▪ in cold blood▪He shot them in cold blood (= in a way that was planned and deliberately cruel).
Collocations dictionary. 2013.
