shed blood
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shed blood (third-person singular simple present sheds blood, present participle shedding blood, simple past and past participle shed blood)
- (idiomatic) To kill or wound, or be wounded or killed, in violence.
- 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
- For he to day that sheds his blood with me, / Shall be my brother:
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