blooded

adj

1. (not-comparable)bloody, bleeding.

   “Blackburn's cause was not helped when Morten Gamst Pedersen and Gael Givet collided going for the same ball, both players emerging blooded and dazed but otherwise unharmed.”

2. (not-comparable)Experienced (especially in warfare).

   “I'll let a rookie march behind me with a loaded weapon once he's been blooded in combat, until then he stays in front where I can see which way he's pointing.”

3. (not-comparable)Following a modifying word in a compound:

   “Mammals are warm-blooded.”

4. (figuratively, not-comparable)Following a modifying word in a compound:

   “Only a cold-blooded killer could have done something like this.”

5. (figuratively, not-comparable)Following a modifying word in a compound:

   “He's a full-blooded Irishman.”

6. (derogatory, figuratively, not-comparable, sometimes)Following a modifying word in a compound:

   “A blue-blooded aristocrat.”

7. (not-comparable, usually)Derived from ancestors of good blood; having a good pedigree.

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of blood