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UK
/blˈʌdlɪtɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈbɫədˌɫɛtɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈbɫədˌɫɛtɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine)
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indiscriminate slaughter
ten days after the bloodletting Hitler gave the action its name
a huge prison battue was ordered
the valley is no stranger to bloodshed and murder
a bloodbath took place when the leaders of the plot surrendered
How To Use bloodletting In A Sentence
- As the crime wave continues with little let-up in the senseless bloodletting that has engulfed the country, many people are politicising the issue.
- From bloody coups to tribal and religious strife, that country hardly enjoys more than a few months without bloodletting and political convulsions.
- For those who can still put two and two together, the Ft. Hood killings look like the beginning of a long term bloodletting in our country, an unnecessary travail we will be forced WN.com - Articles related to Gandhi, State Dinners, and the Global Family
- The perpetrators of genocide were no different from those who did not participate in the bloodletting.
- Bloodletting is an effective treatment for haemochromatosis, the effects can be monitored by testing transferrin saturation and serum ferritin, and the treatment can help to prevent serious complications of the disorder if diagnosed in a timely fashion. Stuff And Nonsense
- But industry watchers believe the bloodletting isn't over.
- From bloody coups to tribal and religious strife, that country hardly enjoys more than a few months without bloodletting and political convulsions.
- Today, many medical practices such as bloodletting are no longer used.
- And so by the last reel of the film we're waiting patiently for the two main characters to meet for some major bloodletting.
- Walter Bruel would have a practitioner begin first with a clyster of his, which he prescribes before bloodletting: the common sort, as Mercurialis, Montaltus cap. Anatomy of Melancholy
