bloodless

Synonyymisanakirja

bloodless

kuollut, kalpea, veretön, väkivallaton, väritön, kalmankalpea, tuhkanharmaa, valkea.

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Englannin sanakirja

bloodless englanniksi

1. Lacking blood; ashen, anaemic.

2. c. 1593, (w), (w), Act III, Scene 1,^{http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play_view.php?WorkID=titus&Scope=entire&pleasewait=1&msg=pl}

Thou dost not slumber: see, thy two sons’ heads,

Thy warlike hand, thy mangled daughter here:

Thy other banish’d son, with this dear sight

Struck pale and bloodless; and thy brother, I,

Even like a stony image, cold and numb.

3. 1956, (w), (w), Penguin, 2001, Part One, Chapter 2,

The face was white and thoroughly bloodless with some kind of foundation cream; it stank of powder and a gardenia-like perfume.

4. Taking place without loss of blood.

a bloodless conquest; a bloodless coup détat; a bloodless revolution; a bloodless victory

5. Lacking emotion, passion or vivacity.

6. 1937, “No. 1 Rumanian,” w:Time (magazine)|Time, 8 February, 1937,^{http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,883581,00.html}

Those Philharmonic subscribers who considered Guest Conductor (w) too bloodless and ascetic (..) last week found his successor, (w), more to their taste.

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