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bloodstained

[bluhd-steynd]

adjective

  1. stained with blood.

    a bloodstained knife.

  2. guilty of murder, slaughter, or bloodshed.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of bloodstained1

1590–1600; blood + stained; stain, -ed 2
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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the Israeli attacks extended Israel’s “filthy and bloodstained hand to commit a crime in our beloved country.”

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She described being taken to a ward just an hour after giving birth and still bleeding, then being left in the same bloodstained sheets for 12 hours.

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The cameras were watching him again on Tuesday, a hand to his bruised face, as he walked awkwardly away in bloodstained clothes after almost 24 hours in Israeli detention.

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Footage of Naama that day shows her and other female soldiers in bloodstained clothing surrounded by armed men in a room at the base before being forced into a vehicle and taken to Gaza.

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Some of the captives appear to be elderly, and many are wearing what seem to be bloodstained white robes.

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