Sanguified

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Covered or stained with blood, often in a violent or gruesome way
2. Having been smeared, soaked or reddened with blood from an injury or killing
3. Made bloody or marked with gore, as if by the spilling of blood

Etymology: "Sanguified" is the past tense and past participle of "sanguify," a verb meaning to make something bloody or to turn it into blood. The verb is built from "sangui-," a combining form of Latin "sanguis," meaning "blood," joined to the English suffix "-fy," which comes from Latin "-ficare," meaning "to make." Put together, the parts say exactly what the word does: to make into blood. The pattern is a familiar one. English has many "-fy" verbs formed from Latin or Latin-based stems, such as "purify" and "terrify," and "sanguify" follows the same model. The closely related French form "sanguifier" shows the same construction in another language, so the word was built from shared Latin materials rather than borrowed whole.