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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BLOOD'LESS, a. Without blood; dead.
1. Without shedding of blood or slaughter; as a bloodless victory.
2. Without spirit or activity.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: destitute of blood or apparently so; "the bloodless carcass of my Hector sold"- John Dryden [syn: bloodless, exsanguine, exsanguinous]
2: free from blood or bloodshed; "bloodless surgery"; "a bloodless coup" [ant: bloody]
3: without vigor or zest or energy; "an insipid and bloodless young man"
4: devoid of human emotion or feeling; "charts of bloodless economic indicators"
5: anemic looking from illness or emotion; "a face turned ashen"; "the invalid's blanched cheeks"; "tried to speak with bloodless lips"; "a face livid with shock"; "lips...livid with the hue of death"- Mary W. Shelley; "lips white with terror"; "a face white with rage" [syn: ashen, blanched, bloodless, livid, white]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: before 12th century 1. deficient in or free from blood 2. not accompanied by loss or shedding of blood <a bloodless victory> 3. lacking in spirit or vitality 4. lacking in human feeling <bloodless statistics> • bloodlessly adverb • bloodlessness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 without blood. 2 unemotional; cold. 3 pale. 4 without bloodshed (a bloodless coup). 5 feeble; lifeless. Derivatives: bloodlessly adv. bloodlessness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bloodless Blood"less, a. [AS. bl?dle['a]s.] 1. Destitute of blood, or apparently so; as, bloodless cheeks; lifeless; dead. The bloodless carcass of my Hector sold. --Dryden. 2. Not attended with shedding of blood, or slaughter; as, a bloodless victory. --Froude. 3. Without spirit or activity. Thou bloodless remnant of that royal blood ! --Shak. -- Blood"less*ly, adv. -- Blood"less*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. A bloodless coup or victory is one in which nobody is killed. Reports from the area indicate that it was a bloodless coup... The campaign would be short and relatively bloodless. ADJ • bloodlessly This war had to be fought fast and relatively bloodlessly. ADV: ADV with v 2. If you describe someone's face or skin as bloodless, you mean that it is very pale. ...her face grey and bloodless. = ashen ADJ

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