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In some senses, blooded is marked as figuratively. Watch for register when choosing this word.
adj
bloody, bleeding.
Blackburn's cause was not helped when Morten Gamst Pedersen and Gael Givet collided going for the same ball, both players emerging blooded and dazed but otherwise unharmed.
Experienced (especially in warfare).
I'll let a rookie march behind me with a loaded weapon once he's been blooded in combat, until then he stays in front where I can see which way he's pointing.
Following a modifying word in a compound:
Mammals are warm-blooded.
Following a modifying word in a compound:
Only a cold-blooded killer could have done something like this.
Following a modifying word in a compound:
He's a full-blooded Irishman.