(verb) : crŭento, āvi, ātum, 1, cruentus
* To make bloody, to spot with blood (class.).
* Lit.: vigiles, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 1, 4: manus suorum sanguine,Nep. Epam. 10, 3; cf. Liv. 23, 9, 4, and Tac. H. 1, 58 fin.: cornipedem ferratā calce,Sil. 17, 541: gladium,Cic. Inv. 2, 4, 14; cf. tela,Ov. M. 8, 424: ōs,id. ib. 4, 104: dextras,id. ib. 11, 23: cruentati redeunt,id. ib. 3, 572: ut sequenti die Luna se in Aquario cruentaret,would appear to be stained with blood,Suet. Dom. 16.
* Trop.: haec te lacerat, haec cruentat oratio,wounds,Cic. Phil. 2, 34, 86 (v. the figure in its connection).
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* To spot, stain, pollute: vestem,Lucr. 4, 1033.
* To dye red, to tinge with red (post-Aug.): conchylio vestis cruentatur,Sen. Contr 2, 15 fin.; so Stat. S. 1, 5, 38.

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