bloodstain

US/ˈblʌdˌsteɪn/

nounB2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechleans spoken

Other forms: bloodstains

A bloodstain is the dark mark blood leaves on cloth or floor once it dries. Rust-brown by then, not red.

The word belongs above all to crime writing: bloodstains on a sleeve, a bloodstain the shape of a hand, the bloodstain pattern that tells an investigator where somebody was standing. In ordinary life it is the thing you are trying to get out of a shirt with cold water and no success. The adjective bloodstained appears in novels more often than the noun — a bloodstained bandage, bloodstained hands — and it tends to carry guilt along with the blood.

Definitions of bloodstain

1nounbloodstainA mark left on a surface by blood.B2
“There was a bloodstain on the carpet by the door.”

Where it comes from

From blood + stain.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Man Called Ove

First appears in chapter 6 of A Man Called Ove.

Practise this word

bloodstain in the wild

Bloodstain pattern analysis (BPA) is a forensic discipline focused on analyzing bloodstains left at known, or suspected crime scenes through visual pattern recognition and physics-based assessments.
Bloodstain pattern analysis
Sutton, and it divides bloodstains into three categories: passive, spatter, and altered.
Bloodstain pattern analysis
A group of bloodstain analysts recognized the need for a coordinated effort to develop themselves and the emerging field of bloodstain pattern analysis.
International Association of Bloodstain Pattern Analysts
When the IABPA bylaws were formed, one of the main objectives of the association was identified as promoting the education of all involved with bloodstain pattern analysis.
International Association of Bloodstain Pattern Analysts
SWGSTAIN has nationally and internationally recognized bloodstain pattern analysts, several of whom are members of the International Association of Bloodstain Pattern Analysts (IABPA).
Scientific Working Group – Bloodstain Pattern Analysis

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