bloodless

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destitute of blood or apparently so; "the bloodless carcass of my Hector sold"- John Dryden

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adjective

destitute of blood or apparently so; "the bloodless carcass of my Hector sold"- John Dryden

adjective

free from blood or bloodshed; "bloodless surgery"; "a bloodless coup"

adjective

without vigor or zest or energy; "an insipid and bloodless young man"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for bloodless.

adjective

destitute of blood or apparently so; "the bloodless carcass of my Hector sold"- John Dryden

adjective

free from blood or bloodshed; "bloodless surgery"; "a bloodless coup"

adjective

without vigor or zest or energy; "an insipid and bloodless young man"

adjective

devoid of human emotion or feeling; "charts of bloodless economic indicators"

adjective

anemic looking from illness or emotion; "a face turned ashen"; "the invalid's blanched cheeks"; "tried to speak with bloodless lips"; "a face livid with shock"; "lips...livid with the hue of death"- Mary W. Shelley; "lips white with terror"; "a face white with rage"

Example sentences

Considering that the incest fetish runs as high as 10% such information could be used to perform a bloodless coup.

Not to mention a refresh of power every so often and bloodless changeovers of power.

A few years ago people were talking about the export of American culture, how it is a bloodless conquest of the world.

A bloodless transition to democracy is sadly the least likely outcome.

They felt like something out of a gossip magazine rather than someone who has a "bloodless rationality"

You can think that this is insane, but because Jehovah's Witnesses being stubborn about blood transfusions, much progress has been made in bloodless procedures.

The argument against assumes that he's a bloodless psychopath who is willing to condone discrimination as long as it improves his bottom line.

I can just imagine the conversations inside the NSA - about how this is a bloodless way to destabilise their enemies and bring down those who might hurt America.

The next step is bloodless, and the Stasi had it right.> By the 1970s, the Stasi had decided that methods of overt persecution which had been employed up to that time, such as arrest and torture, were too crude and obvious.