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cold-blooded
[ kohld-bluhd-id ]
adjective
- designating or pertaining to animals, as fishes and reptiles, whose blood temperature ranges from the freezing point upward, in accordance with the temperature of the surrounding medium; poikilothermic.
- without emotion or feeling; dispassionate; cruel:
a cold-blooded murder.
- sensitive to cold.
cold-blooded
adjective
- having or showing a lack of feeling or pity
a cold-blooded killing
- informal.particularly sensitive to cold
- (of all animals except birds and mammals) having a body temperature that varies with that of the surroundings Technical termpoikilothermic
cold-blooded
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- Having a body temperature that changes according to the temperature of the surroundings. Fish, amphibians, and reptiles are cold-blooded.
Derived Forms
- ËŒ³¦´Ç±ô»å-ˈ²ú±ô´Ç´Ç»å±ð»å±ô²â, adverb
- ËŒ³¦´Ç±ô»å-ˈ²ú±ô´Ç´Ç»å±ð»å²Ô±ð²õ²õ, noun
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ³¦´Ç±ô»å-²ú±ô´Ç´Ç»åĻå·±ô²â adverb
- ³¦´Ç±ô»å-²ú±ô´Ç´Ç»åĻå·²Ô±ð²õ²õ noun
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of cold-blooded1
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Example Sentences
And that should worry all of us, both those who think of Mangione as a cold-blooded killer or as Robin Hood.
Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement on Tuesday that she had directed federal prosecutors to seek the penalty for the "premeditated, cold-blooded assassination".
It seems cold-blooded, but if they wanted to maintain their commitment to winning, they had to end their commitment to Kupp.
A lawyer for Kitty Menendez’s brother, Milton Andersen, has called the brothers "cold-blooded" and said their "actions shattered their family and left a trail of grief that has persisted for decades."
Wiener called Thompson’s killing a “cold-blooded assassination†but said his bill grew out of a narrower proposal that failed last year aimed at improving mental health coverage for children and adults under age 26.
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