blooded
bloody, bleeding.
Other meanings
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
Word history
From Middle English "bloded".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “blooded” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.