Definition of "ensanguine" [en•san•guine]

• To cover or stain with or as if with blood. (verb-transitive)

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• "His eyelids were inflamed, and but served to ensanguine the bitter and cold-blazing intensity of the pupils."
• "But in the attempt to incarnate and ensanguine it I failed wretchedly."
• "But because the blind boy's shaft, designed to work inward ever deeper and deeper until it reached the heart's core, did now but ensanguine itself, he made no cry nor any sign of that sweet hurt."