1. bloodletting - Noun
2. bloodletting - Verb
The act or process of letting blood or bleeding, as by opening a vein or artery, or by cupping or leeches; -- esp. applied to venesection.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWe can hold up under everything if only we have the certainty the monster Hitler with his insatiable bloodletting and plundering will have committed soon his last shameful deed. Friedrich Kellner
From the exposition of facts... we infer that bloodletting has had very little influence. Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis
When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages. Lee Iacocca
a bloodbath took place when the leaders of the plot surrendered Source: Internet
ten days after the bloodletting Hitler gave the action its name Source: Internet
the valley is no stranger to bloodshed and murder Source: Internet