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blood-letting

blood-let
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [bluhd let]
    • /blʌd lɛt/
    • /blʌd ˈlet.ɪŋ/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [bluhd let]
    • /blʌd lɛt/

Definitions of blood-letting word

  • uncountable noun blood-letting Blood-letting is violence or killing between groups of people, especially between rival armies. 3
  • uncountable noun blood-letting Journalists sometimes refer to a bitter quarrel between two groups of people from within the same organization as blood-letting. 3
  • noun blood-letting the therapeutic removal of blood, as in relieving congestive heart failure 3
  • noun blood-letting bloodshed, esp in a blood feud 3
  • noun blood-letting the act or practice of letting blood by opening a vein; phlebotomy. 1
  • noun blood-letting bloodshed or slaughter. 1
See all 8 definitions of blood-letting

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Origin of blood-letting

First appearance:

before 1175
One of the 8% oldest English words
First recorded in 1175-1225, bloodletting is from the Middle English word blod letunge. See blood, let1, -ing1

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Parts of speech for Blood-letting

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Full grammatical hierarchy of Blood-letting

blood-letting popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 63% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.

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