blood

sang

Liquide généralement rouge qui circule dans le corps et apporte de l’oxygène et des nutriments aux organes.

En anglais simple : 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.

Expressions courantes : blood pressure, blood test, lose blood, donate blood

lien de sang, consanguinité

Lien entre des personnes ayant des membres de leur famille en commun par la naissance.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : by blood (We are related by blood, not by marriage.)

Synonymes : kinship, blood relationship

Expressions courantes : related by blood, blood relation, blood ties

famille, parents de sang

Famille à laquelle on appartient par la naissance, et non par mariage ou adoption.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : family, kin, relatives

Expressions courantes : my own blood, your own blood, blood is thicker, someone's own blood

ensanglanter

Couvrir ou tacher quelque chose avec le sang d’une personne ou d’un animal.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : bloody, stain with blood

Expressions courantes : blood a blade, blood someone's face, blood someone's hands