verb
1. kill violently
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They will never stop shedding the blood of their enemies
• Hypernyms: ↑kill
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s
2. lose blood from one's body
• Syn: ↑bleed, ↑hemorrhage
• Derivationally related forms: ↑hemorrhage (for: ↑hemorrhage), ↑bleeder (for: ↑bleed), ↑bleeding (for: ↑bleed)
• Hyponyms: ↑menstruate, ↑flow
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s
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phrasal : to cause death by bloodshed or violence
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to cause death or injury
Too much blood has already been shed in this conflict.
Thesaurus: to kill a person or animalsynonym to injure yourself or someone elsesynonym to kill yourselfhyponym
Main entry: shed
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shed (someone's) blood
be injured or killed (or kill or injure someone)
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shed blood — see ↑blood
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Main Entry: ↑shed
Useful english dictionary. 2012.