shed blood

Questions about shed blood

What does shed blood mean?

shed blood means "kill violently". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for shed blood?

Close synonyms include bleed, hemorrhage. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shed blood a common word?

shed blood is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.