bloodily
pronunciation
How to pronounce bloodily in British English:
UK ['blʌdɪlɪ]
How to pronounce bloodily in American English:
US ['blʌdɪlɪ]
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- Adverb:
- involving a great bloodshed
Word Origin
- bloodily (adv.)
- 1560s, from bloody + -ly (2).
Example
- 1. All ends bloodily , with humbert incarcerated for murder .
- 2. Riots were bloodily put down .
- 3. If he refuses to budge , the syrian people will bring him down in the end-on their own , and bloodily .
- 4. Un reports accused him of backing charles taylor 's rebels in liberia , during a civil war that spilled over bloodily into neighbouring sierra leone .
- 5. In saudi arabia , a group of armed islamist fanatics took over the grand mosque in mecca and held on for two weeks until they were bloodily suppressed .