Definition of "shed blood" [shed blood]

• Kill violently (verb)
• Lose blood from one's body (verb)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "The place, by the by, was very stuffy and oppressive, and the faint halitus of freshly shed blood was in the air."
• "His sin was expiated, -- the curse was gone from him; and in the hour when he had shed blood dearer to him than his own, a prayer, the first for years, went up to Heaven from the lips of Reuben Bourne."
• "Sir William Roskill had found traces of recently shed blood under the collar of the disk."