taste blood
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.58 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To sense weakness in another, encouraging one to attack.
verb
To press home an advantage in a debate, etc.
verb
To take pleasure in something new.
Example Sentences
- "[…] in those few moments I had proved myself a cyclist of such enormous cool, such dazzling technique, that I knew I would never again slow down for an advancing truck, veer to avoid a threatening limousine, or hesitate to plunge into the midst of a pedestrian phalanx. I had tasted blood, and now I knew what all those pillar-legged hostelers felt as they sat around their campfires, recalling the encounters and skirmishes of the day."
- "But having tasted blood on the issue, the Obama campaign kept jabbing away."