bloodstain

[ bluhd-steyn ]

noun
  1. a spot or stain made by blood.

Origin of bloodstain

1
First recorded in 1810–20; back formation from bloodstained

Words Nearby bloodstain

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How to use bloodstain in a sentence

  • They function sort of like a combination of Guy Pearce’s tattoos in “Memento” and the bloodstains in “Demon’s Souls,” delivering information that is sometimes useful and sometimes not.

  • There was, it seems, no sign of the creature, and no bloodstain which would show that my bullet had found him as he passed.

    The Last Galley | Arthur Conan Doyle
  • I was made to think of this by the great bloodstain on the deck close against the cabin-door.

    My Danish Sweetheart, Volume 3 of 3 | William Clark Russell
  • But there was a large bloodstain, black and circular, on the floor of the calculator's room.

    Salvage in Space | John Stewart Williamson
  • Anyway, with a soft laugh, the bloodstain has been washed from the Gray Phantoms name.

  • She took her hand from her lips, but a geranium petal was left clinging there, like a bloodstain.

    Saint's Progress | John Galsworthy

British Dictionary definitions for bloodstain

bloodstain

/ (ˈblʌdˌsteɪn) /


noun
  1. a dark discoloration caused by blood, esp dried blood

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