bloodletting English

Meaning bloodletting meaning

What does bloodletting mean?

bloodletting

— noun formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine)

— noun (= bloodbath, bloodshed, battue) 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

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phlebotomy

bloodshed

bleed

bloodbath

battue

exsanguination

collect

blood-letting

bleeding

massacre

let blood

indentation

exsanguinating

carnage

blootletting