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Definition of Shed blood
1. Verb. Kill violently. "They will never stop shedding the blood of their enemies"
2. Verb. Lose blood from one's body. "Did his feet shed blood?"
Specialized synonyms: Flow, Menstruate
Generic synonyms: Discharge, Eject, Exhaust, Expel, Release
Derivative terms: Bleeder, Bleeding, Hemorrhage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shed Blood
Literary usage of Shed blood
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old Testament by George V. Wigram (1866)
"25:31. ri Mer that thou hait shed blood poured out blood upon them) I'm. ... 9.
men that carry tales to shed blood : 12. have they taken gifts io shed blood ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"The king struck Arundel with a cane with such force as to shed blood and therefore
to pollute the precincts of Westminster Abbey. On 3 Aug. ..."
3. The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck (1906)
"... ordination all who had served in an army after baptism.5 Penance was prescribed
for those who had shed blood on the battle-field.6 Thus 1 St. Augustine, ..."
4. The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck (1906)
"... ordination all who had served in an army after baptism.5 Penance was prescribed
for those who had shed blood on the battle-field.0 Thus 1 St. Augustine, ..."
5. Theology of the Old Testament by Gustav Friedrich Oehler, George Edward Day (1883)
"Continuation : The Use made of the shed blood. 4. The streaming blood of the
slaughtered animal was immediately caught by a priest (1) in a basin, ..."
6. A Text-book of physiology by Michael Foster (1891)
"When shed blood is stirred or "whipped "the fibrin makes its appearance ...
Similarly, movement of shed blood hastens clotting, since it increases the ..."
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