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say it: bluhd
blood is a noun and verb meaning "the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets". It is pronounced /ˈblʌd/ — bluhd. It carries 6 recorded senses.
the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets
“blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the tissues and carries away waste products”
“the ancients believed that blood was the seat of the emotions”
vertebrate
smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for blood come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.