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sanguinolent en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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• /sæŋˈɡwɪnələnt/

Etymology

From Middle English sanguinolent, from Old French sanguinolent, from Latin sanguinolentus (“of blood”).

Meanings

1. Containing or tinged with blood.
   • When the desire to urinate manifests itself chiefly at night, with burning pains when urinating, or emission, drop by drop, of sanguinolent urine. 1862, George Heinrich Gottlieb Jahr, Hull's Jahr: A New Manual of Homœopathic Practice, William Radde, page 537:
   • On making a larger opening there issued three or four pints of a very sanguinolent fluid. 1829 July, M. Portal, “Pleuritis Hæmorraghica — Operation for Empyema — Death — Dissection”, in The Medico-Chirurgical Review:
   • He still walked about London with his dreams, but as months succeeded months and he left the year behind him they were dreams not so much of success as of revenge. Success seemed a colourless name for the reward of his patience; something fiercely florid, something sanguinolent was more to the point. 1892, Henry James, Nona Vincent:
   • They are caused by an accumulation of blood or sanguinolent liquid inside the dental follicles, they may occur in the deciduous as well as permanent dentition. 2010, Tatjana Dostálová, Michaela Seydlová, editors, Dentistry and Oral Diseases, Grade Publishing, →ISBN, page 163:

Forms

Deriveds

serosanguinolent

Synonyms

bloody

Translations (8)

de blutbefleckt (containing or tinged with blood) · de blutbeschmiert (containing or tinged with blood) · es sangriento (containing or tinged with blood) · de bluttriefend (containing or tinged with blood) · fi verensekainen (containing or tinged with blood) · de blutbesudelt (containing or tinged with blood) · de blutig (containing or tinged with blood) · es sanguinolento (containing or tinged with blood)