3 definitions found
bloodletting - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Bloodletting \Blood"let`ting\, n. (Med.)
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.
[1913 Webster]
bloodletting - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :
bloodletting
n 1: formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of
the four humors of medieval medicine)
2: indiscriminate slaughter; "a bloodbath took place when the
leaders of the plot surrendered"; "ten days after the
bloodletting Hitler gave the action its name"; "the valley is
no stranger to bloodshed and murder"; "a huge prison battue
was ordered" [syn: bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed,
battue]
bloodletting - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
48 Moby Thesaurus words for "bloodletting":
aspiration, bane, bleeding, blood, bloodshed, braining, broaching,
cupping, dealing death, destruction, destruction of life, dispatch,
drafting, drainage, draining, drawing, emptying, euthanasia,
execution, extermination, flow of blood, gore, immolation, kill,
killing, lapidation, leeching, martyrdom, martyrization,
mercy killing, milking, phlebotomy, pipetting, poisoning, pumping,
ritual killing, ritual murder, sacrifice, shooting, siphoning,
slaughter, slaying, stoning, sucking, suction, taking of life,
tapping, venesection
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