- blood
- I(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)II(Roget's IV) n.1. [Fluid in the mammalian circulatory system]Syn. lifeblood, heart's blood, vital fluid, vital juices, gore, sanguine fluid, hemoglobin, plasma, serum.2. [Lineage]Syn. stock, ancestry, descent, line; see family 1 .• bad blood,• have someone's blood on one's head or [m1]• hands,Syn. be blamable, be culpable, be responsible; see guilty 2 .• in cold blood,Syn. deliberately, intentionally, willfully, dispassionately; see deliberately .Syn. cruelly, heartlessly, ruthlessly; see brutally .• make one's blood boil,Syn. disturb, infuriate, agitate; see anger 1 .• make one's blood run cold,Syn. terrify, horrify, scare; see frighten 1 .III(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.1. life-fluid hemoglobin, gore, plasma. ''A very special kind of sap.''—Johann Goethe.2. kinship kindred, ancestry, pedigree, extraction, lineage, relatives.IV(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) a.cruelly, intentionally, indifferently, unfeelingly.V(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun 1. The fluid circulated by the heart through the vascular system: gore. See BLOOD. 2. The crime of murdering someone: homicide, killing, murder. Slang: hit. See HELP. 3. One's ancestors or their character or one's ancestral derivation: ancestry, birth, bloodline, descent, extraction, family, genealogy, line, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, seed, stock. See KIN, PRECEDE. 4. Noble rank or status by birth: birth, blue blood, nobility, noblesse. See KIN, OVER.
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