blood

sangre

Líquido normalmente rojo que circula por el cuerpo y lleva oxígeno y nutrientes a sus distintas partes.

En inglés sencillo: The usually red liquid that flows inside your body, carrying oxygen and food to its parts.

• There was blood on his shirt.
• She gives blood twice a year.
• The nurse took a blood sample from my arm.

Expresiones frecuentes: blood pressure, blood test, lose blood, donate blood

parentesco de sangre, consanguinidad

Vínculo entre personas que tienen familiares en común por nacimiento.

En inglés sencillo: The connection between people who share family members through birth.

• They are related by blood.
• Blood ties do not always make a family close.
• He is my uncle by marriage, not by blood.

Cómo se usa: by blood (We are related by blood, not by marriage.)

Sinónimos: kinship, blood relationship

Expresiones frecuentes: related by blood, blood relation, blood ties

familia, parientes de sangre

Familia a la que perteneces por nacimiento, y no por matrimonio o adopción.

En inglés sencillo: The family you belong to through birth, rather than marriage or adoption.

• I cannot abandon my own blood.
• She treats him kindly because he is her blood.
• He chose to protect his blood despite their argument.

Sinónimos: family, kin, relatives

Expresiones frecuentes: my own blood, your own blood, blood is thicker, someone's own blood

ensangrentar

Cubrir o manchar algo con sangre de una persona o un animal.

En inglés sencillo: To cover or stain something with the red liquid from a person’s or animal’s body.

• The wound blooded his shirt.
• A deep cut had blooded her sleeve.
• The fighter's nose was blooded by the blow.

Sinónimos: bloody, stain with blood

Expresiones frecuentes: blood a blade, blood someone's face, blood someone's hands