bloodletting

Speech parts

1. bloodletting - Noun

2. bloodletting - Verb

Meaning

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 dictionary

Synonyms

bloodshed bloodbath battue gore holocaust bane battle blood butchery decimation hemophilia violence killing murder assassination
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Antonyms

amity life construction engineering mild harmony
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Hypernyms

butchery massacre slaughter carnage mass murder medical care

Hyponyms

cupping phlebotomy venesection

Examples

We 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

Close letter words and terms

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