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bloodstain
[ bluhd-steyn ]
noun
- a spot or stain made by blood.
bloodstain
/ ˈblʌdˌsteɪn /
noun
- a dark discoloration caused by blood, esp dried blood
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Word History and Origins
Origin of bloodstain1
First recorded in 1810–20; back formation from bloodstained
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Example Sentences
There was, it seems, no sign of the creature, and no bloodstain which would show that my bullet had found him as he passed.
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I was made to think of this by the great bloodstain on the deck close against the cabin-door.
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But there was a large bloodstain, black and circular, on the floor of the calculator's room.
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Anyway, with a soft laugh, the bloodstain has been washed from the Gray Phantoms name.
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She took her hand from her lips, but a geranium petal was left clinging there, like a bloodstain.
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