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blood - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | blood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | red body fluid |
| Synonyms: | clot, gore, juice, claret, cruor, hemoglobin, plasma, sanguine fluid, vital fluid |
| Main Entry: | blood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ancestry |
| Synonyms: | birth, consanguinity, descent, extraction, family, kindred, kinship, line, lineage, origin, pedigree, stock, descendants, relations |
| Main Entry: | ancestry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | family predecessors; family history |
| Synonyms: | ancestor, antecedent, blood, breed, breeding, derivation, descent, extraction, forebear, forefather, forerunner, genealogy, heritage, house, kindred, line, lineage, origin, pedigree, precursor, progenitor, race, source, stock, antecessor, foregoer, foremother, parentage, primogenitor |
| Main Entry: | antecedent(s) |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | predecessor(s) in family |
| Synonyms: | ancestor, ancestry, blood, descent, extraction, genealogy, line, progenitor, stock, antecessor, forebears, forefather/mother, primogenitor |
| Antonyms: | descendant |
| Main Entry: | carnage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | massacre |
| Synonyms: | blitz, blood, bloodshed, crime, gore, havoc, holocaust, homicide, killing, manslaughter, mass murder, murder, rapine, shambles, slaughter, warfare, annihilation, blood and guts, blood bath, butchering, butchery, extermination, hecatomb, liquidation, offing, search and destroy, slaying, taking out, wasting |
| Main Entry: | family |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | kin, offspring; classification |
| Synonyms: | ancestry, birth, blood, brood, clan, class, descent, dynasty, extraction, folk, genealogy, genre, group, house, household, inheritance, issue, kind, kindred, kith and kin, line, lineage, network, pedigree, people, progeny, race, relationship, strain, subdivision, system, tribe, ancestors, children, descendants, forebears, generations, heirs and assigns, in-laws, ménage, parentage, progenitors, relations, relatives, siblings |
| Main Entry: | kin |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blood relative |
| Synonyms: | affinity, blood, clan, connection, consanguinity, cousin, extraction, family, folk, house, kindred, kinship, lineage, member, people, race, relation, relationship, sibling, stock, tribe, kinsfolk, kinsperson, kith |
| Notes: | your family or relatives are kin; your friends, neighbors, and acquaintances are kith |
| Main Entry: | kindred |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blood relative |
| Synonyms: | affinity, blood, clan, connection, consanguinity, cousin, family, flesh, folk, house, kin, lineage, race, relation, relationship, stock, tribe, homefolk, kinsfolk, kinsperson |
| Main Entry: | kinship |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | family relationship |
| Synonyms: | affinity, blood, clan, family, flesh, folk, kin, kindred, lineage, tribe, relations |
| Main Entry: | lineage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ancestry |
| Synonyms: | birth, blood, breed, clan, descent, extraction, family, folk, genealogy, heredity, house, kin, kindred, line, offspring, origin, pedigree, progeny, race, stock, succession, tribe, descendants, forebears, progenitors, stirps |
| Main Entry: | murder |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | killing |
| Synonyms: | blood, bloodshed, carnage, crime, death, destruction, felony, foul play*, hit*, homicide, lynching, manslaughter, massacre, off*, rub out*, shooting, annihilation, assassination, butchery, dispatching, knifing, liquidation, offing, one-way ticket, slaying, taking out, terrorism, the business, the works |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pedigree |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ancestry, heritage |
| Synonyms: | blood, breed, clan, derivation, descent, extraction, family, family tree, genealogy, heredity, line, lineage, origin, race, stock, stirps |
| Main Entry: | relative |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | member of a family |
| Synonyms: | agnate, blood, cognate, connection, cousin, father, folk, folks, mother, relation, sibling, aunt, brother-in-law, clansperson, father-in-law, grandparents, great-grandparents, in-laws, kinsperson, mother-in-law, nephew, niece, sib, sister-in-law, stepbrother, stepparent, stepsister, uncle |
| Main Entry: | roots |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ancestry |
| Synonyms: | background, birthplace, blood, breed, descent, family tree, genealogy, heritage, kindred, line, lineage, origin, pedigree, race, family history, parentage |
| Main Entry: | thoroughbred |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pure, unmixed |
| Synonyms: | blood, full-blooded, graded, pedigree, purebred, papered, pedigreed, pure-blooded |
| Antonyms: | half-breed, impure, mixed |
| Main Entry: | tribe |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ethnic group; family |
| Synonyms: | association, blood, caste, clan, class, division, dynasty, horde, house, ilk, kin, kind, kindred, lineage, people, race, seed, society, sort, stock, type |
| Main Entry: | blood relation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | relative by birth |
| Synonyms: | blood, blood brother, blood sister, family, flesh, flesh and blood, kindred, biological relationship, blood relationship, blood relative, consanguinean, genetic relationship, ties of blood, uterine kin |
| Main Entry: | whole blood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unmodified blood |
| Synonyms: | blood, arterial blood, lifeblood, venous blood |
| Main Entry: | rank |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | standing in a system, often a social one |
| Synonyms: | ancestry, authority, birth, blood, cachet, capacity, caste, circumstance, class, classification, condition, consequence, degree, dignity, distinction, division, echelon, estate, esteem, family, footing, grade, hierarchy, level, nobility, note, order, pecking order, pedigree, place, position, primacy, privilege, quality, reputation, seniority, situation, slot, sort, sovereignty, sphere, state, station, stature, status, stock, stratum, supremacy, type, paramountcy, parentage |
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