Sanguinary

Word SANGUINARY
Character 10
Hyphenation san gui na ry
Pronunciations /ˈsæŋɡwɪnəɹi/

Definitions and meanings of "Sanguinary"

What do we mean by sanguinary?

Accompanied by bloodshed. adjective

Eager for bloodshed; bloodthirsty. adjective

Consisting of blood. adjective

Consisting of blood; formed of blood: as, a sanguinary stream.

Bloody; attended with much bloodshed or carnage: as, a sanguinary encounter.

Bloodthirsty; eager to shed blood; characterized by cruelty.

Synonyms and Sanguinary, Bloody. Sanguinary refers to the shedding of blood, or pleasure in the shedding of blood;’ bloody refers to the presence or, by extension, the shedding of blood: as, a sanguinary battle; the sanguinary spirit of Jenghiz Khan; a bloody knife or battle.

The yarrow or milfoil: probably so called from its fabled use in stanching blood. noun

The bloodroot, Sanguinaria Canadensis. noun

Attended with much bloodshed; bloody; murderous. adjective

Bloodthirsty; cruel; eager to shed blood. adjective

The yarrow. noun

The Sanguinaria. noun

Attended with bloodshed. adjective

Eager to shed blood; bloodthirsty. adjective

Consisting of, covered with or similar in appearance to blood. adjective

A bloodthirsty person. noun

The plant yarrow, or herba sanguinaria. noun

Marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed adjective

Accompanied by bloodshed adjective

A bloodthirsty person.

The plant common yarrow, or herba sanguinaria (Achillea millefolium).

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The word "sanguinary" in example sentences

The despair of the flying Goths found some consolation in sanguinary revenge; and three hundred youths of the noblest families, who had been sent as hostages beyond the Po, were inhumanly slain by the successor of Totila. ❋ Unknown (1206)

April morning to recall the sanguinary history of the Glen. ❋ Stephen Leacock (1906)

At the same time, under the influence of Adelaide's nervous nature, the vices which in the father assumed a kind of sanguinary frankness were in the son tinged with an artfulness full of hypocrisy and cowardice. ❋ ��mile Zola (1871)

Though Christianity was imposed on the natives and emanated from an utterly unfamiliar mental world, they never sought to return to the sanguinary rites of their aboriginal faith. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They wanted their little (and sanguinary and useless) war. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A fatal inefficiency, coupled with possession of the most marvelous devices for taking life, prevents them from succeeding more than very rarely in their sanguinary efforts for the regeneration of the world. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The recoil of the butt into the pit of the man's stomach had not been the most sanguinary result, for the charge of shot, at a distance of a yard, had blown the head of one of the debaters into nothingness. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"Quite a sanguinary turn, I should say," Uncle Robert remarked. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And when one has once become conscious of this sanguinary feeling his whole destiny seems to grip hold of him and drag him into the abyss. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But she and her guardian are creating a stir by leaving a trail of dead bodies, drained of blood to feed her sanguinary appetite. ❋ Marshall Fine (2010)

It was the very bench Tom Henan had sat upon that last sanguinary day of life. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This classic moral tale recounts the sad, the sorry, and sanguinary end that Teresa and all who transgress meets when she fails in her Christian duty to bless the poor. ❋ Stephen J. Gertz (2011)

An outcast himself from the pack of the part-grown dogs, his sanguinary methods and remarkable efficiency made the pack pay for its persecution of him. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Louis, despite a most sanguinary array of butcher-knives and a big poker, pins his cook's faith on hot water and sees to it that two kettles are always piping on top the cabin stove. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A little later, when the sun was quite down, in the background of the curdled clouds smouldered a wine-red mass of colour, that faded to bronze and tinged all the fading greens with its sanguinary hue. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I did, however, snag a ticket to the new Off-Broadway "Dracula," partly because the ever-excellent George Hearn is playing Van Helsing, Buffy's spiritual great-grandfather, and partly because Thora Birch, who was so fine in "Ghost World" and "American Beauty," was supposed to play Lucy Seward, the chief recipient of the sanguinary favors of the Transylvanian count Michel Altieri. ❋ Terry Teachout (2011)

Flourishing it in a sanguinary manner and scowling fearsomely, I charged upon the invaders. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In fact, we were violating the U.N. and international law in what was eventually shown even to the eedjits in the U.S. to be a pointless, unwarranted, and sanguinary invasion of a sovereign nation. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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