What is bloody?

What Does bloody Mean

The adjective bloody , which comes from the Latin word cruentus , is used to qualify that or that which is bloody or fierce . For example: “This bloody war has already claimed thousands of lives” , “A bloody confrontation between the police and a criminal gang ended with three dead and five wounded” , “The drug traffickers are immersed in a bloody battle for dominance territorial area of ​​the area ” .

A qualifying situation gets bloody when it involves the shedding of blood . Let us suppose that two groups of young people, leaving a disco, get into a fight. These people have knives and also begin to collect blunt objects that they find on public roads: stones, bottles, etc. As a result of the dispute, two adolescents die and another six end up hospitalized. Faced with this terrible balance, it can be said that it was a bloody fight .

Sometimes the adjective bloody or bloody is used to emphasize the tragic effects of an armed conflict or belligerence. A war , to cite one case, is always bloody. However, if the number of fatalities and the serious social consequences are high even taking into account the usual characteristics of these hostilities, the media may refer to a bloody war .
Thus, for example, the term bloody has been used on more than one occasion to refer to the naval battle that, during World War I, took place off the coast of South America. Specifically, the one that took place in the Coronel Bay, which is located in the south of Chile.
It exactly faced the Germans and the British and began when the German fleet, made up of five cruisers, encircled the four English vessels and began the battle by firing at the British battleship HMS Good Hope. A confrontation that ended with the German victory and that ended in a bloody way with a whopping 1,590 deaths.
The bloody can also be symbolic and refer to the lack of contemplations or considerations . A bloody divorce , in this context, is one in which the members of the dissolving couple bring out each other's miseries and resort to all kinds of resources to gain an advantage.
In addition to everything indicated, we cannot ignore that the adjective in question has been used very frequently in the field of literature. A good example of this is the work entitled "12 bloody tales", which was published in 2012 and which is a compendium of stories by various authors. Among these are Alicia Giménez Barlett, Fernando Martínez Laínez, Arturo Pérez Reverte, Mariano Sánchez Soler, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán or Jaume Ribera, among others.
In the same way, we come across the book "Bloody Tales", written by Dino Lanti and which saw the light in 2008. It is about stories in verse and illustrated that are aimed at an adult audience that have a peculiar sense of humour.