Overview of noun blood

The noun blood has 5 senses

• blood -- (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"; "the ancients believed that blood was the seat of the emotions")


• blood -- (temperament or disposition; "a person of hot blood")


• rake, rakehell, profligate, rip, blood, roue -- (a dissolute man in fashionable society)


• lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock -- (the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors")


• blood -- (people viewed as members of a group; "we need more young blood in this organization")

Overview of verb blood

The verb blood has 1 sense

• blood -- (smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill)