bloodlessly

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blood·less

(blŭd′lĭs)

adj.

1. Deficient in or lacking blood.

2. Pale and anemic in color: smiled with bloodless lips.

3. Achieved without bloodshed: a bloodless coup.

4. Lacking vivacity or spirit: a long, bloodless speech.

5. Devoid of human emotion or feeling: charts of bloodless economic indicators.

blood′less·ly adv.

blood′less·ness n.

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Adv. 1. bloodlessly - without bloodshed; in a bloodless manner; without shedding blood; "the coup disposed of the dictator bloodlessly"

bloodily - involving a great bloodshed

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bloodlessly

[ˈblʌdlɪslɪ] ADV → sin derramamiento de sangre

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bloodlessly

[ˈblʌdləsli] adv [win] → sans effusion de sang

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bloodlessly

adv → unblutig

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Nay, he will be here soon; may heaven send you home quietly first that you may not meet with him in the day of his coming, for once he is here the suitors and he will not part bloodlessly."

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