Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

written in blood

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.79 in modern English

Syllables: writ-ten in blood
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

2

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having arisen out of tragedy.

adj

Incredibly harsh or strict; brutal.

Example Sentences

"Safety rules are written in blood...they exist because someone was hurt."
"[…] best practices are expensive and cumbersome, which is why safety regulations are usually written in blood."
"The enduring lesson of Bhopal is that laws written in blood must be enforced with unwavering political will."
"As far as I'm concerned, that federal consent decree is written in blood, the blood of those who have been brutally murdered at the hands of the Minneapolis Police Department."
"The Colony was ruled during that period by laws written in blood; and its history shows how the narrow selfishness of despotic power could counteract the best efforts of benevolence."
"[…]and the home consumers have to pay the expense of maintaining and defending the empire, often with harsh and cruel laws ‘written in blood’."

Synonyms

draconian

Questions

What does written in blood mean?: Having arisen out of tragedy.

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