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Words to describe blood without saying crimson or blood?

Blood—the fluid that circulates in the heart, arteries, capillaries, and veins of a vertebrate animal carrying nourishment and oxygen to and bringing away waste products from all parts of the body

Arterial - relating to or being the bright red blood present in most arteries that has been oxygenated in lungs or gills

Body fluid - a fluid or fluid secretion (such as blood, lymph, saliva, semen, or urine) of the body

Carmine - a vivid red

Cerise - a moderate red

Claret - a dark purplish red

Clot - a coagulated mass produced by clotting of blood

Cruor - obsolete: the clotted portion of coagulated blood

Ensanguine - to make bloody; crimson

Geranium - a vivid or strong red

Gore - blood, especially: clotted blood

Hematic - of, relating to, or containing blood

Hematoid - resembling blood

Hemoglobin - an iron-containing respiratory pigment of vertebrate red blood cells that consists of a globin composed of four subunits each of which is linked to a heme molecule, that functions in oxygen transport to the tissues after conversion to oxygenated form in the gills or lungs, and that assists in carbon dioxide transport back to the gills or lungs after surrender of its oxygen

Hemoid - resembling blood

Ichor - a thin watery or blood-tinged discharge

Incarnadine - bloodred

Juices - the natural fluids of an animal body

Maroon - a dark red

Plasma - the fluid part of blood, lymph, or milk as distinguished from suspended material

Puce - a dark red

Ruddle - red ocher (i.e., a red earthy hematite used as a pigment)

Russet - a reddish brown

Sanguine - bloodred; consisting of or relating to blood

Scarlet - any of various bright reds

Vermilion - any of various red pigments

More: Word Lists ⚜ Blood ⚜ Exsanguination ⚜ On Blood

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“You kiss the back of my legs and I want to cry. Only / the sun has come this close, only the sun.”

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Shauna Barbosa, from “GPS,” Cape Verdean Blues

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“I love the word tender. I think it’s one of my favorite words. I think what I think of tenderness, I do think of an available softness. Maybe vulnerability is another word for it, but I love the word tender. It does imply touch. That there’s a risk involved in something like that. I love that the word is kind of complicated. A tender is one who tends, the way you tend a garden. A tender of a garden. Tender is also an exchange, like legal tender. This word has all these layers and one of them is softness.”

— Ross Gay, interview with The Rumpus

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Simone de Beauvoir, from "Inseraparable: A Never Before Published Novel,"

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— Sonya llya Kaminsky, After Bombardment

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— Friedrich Nietzsche

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— Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living

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Marie Howe, from What the Living Do; “Watching Television”

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James Joyce, from Exiles: A Play In Three Acts, featured in The Selected Plays

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"I want to write like you" she grumbled.

"Why in the world a poem wants to be a poet?" he whispered under his breath.

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Ernesto Sabato, from his novel titled “The Tunnel,” originally published c. May 1948

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Clarice Lispector, A Breath of Life

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When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?

- Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

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Paige Lewis, "Diorama of Want"

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“I think communication starts when words are not present at all … I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.”

— Marina Abramovic