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bloodsucking

blood·suck·er
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [bluhd-suhk-er]
    • /ˈblʌdˌsʌk ər/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [bluhd-suhk-er]
    • /ˈblʌdˌsʌk ər/

Definitions of bloodsucking word

  • noun bloodsucking any animal that sucks blood, especially a leech. 1
  • noun bloodsucking an extortioner or usurer. 1
  • noun bloodsucking sponger (def 2). 1
  • adjective bloodsucking (of an insect or animal) That draws off the blood of another animal, or a person. 0
  • adjective bloodsucking (by extension, of a person) parasitic, leechlike or freeloading. 0
See all 5 definitions of bloodsucking

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Origin of bloodsucking

First appearance:

before 1350
One of the 20% oldest English words
Middle English word dating back to 1350-1400; See origin at blood, sucker

Historical Comparancy

Parts of speech for Bloodsucking

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Full grammatical hierarchy of Bloodsucking

bloodsucking popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 48% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
According to our data about 60% of words is more used. This is a rare but used term. It occurs in the pages of specialized literature and in the speech of educated people.

bloodsucking usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for bloodsucking

adj bloodsucking

  • leech — Margaret, 1893–1974, U.S. historian, novelist, and biographer.
  • parasitical — of, relating to, or characteristic of parasites.
All 2 Synonyms of bloodsucking

Related words

  • bedbug

    A bedbug is a small insect with a round body and no wings which lives in dirty houses and feeds by biting people and sucking their blood when they are in bed.

  • sandfly

    any of several small, bloodsucking, dipterous insects of the family Psychodidae that are vectors of several diseases of humans.

  • anaplasmosis

    a disease of cattle caused by a blood-infecting protozoan parasite, Anaplasma marginale, transmitted by bloodsucking flies and ticks.

  • arbovirus

    any one of a group of viruses that cause such diseases as encephalitis and dengue and are transmitted to humans by arthropods, esp insects and ticks

  • assassin bug

    any long-legged predatory, often blood-sucking, insect of the heteropterous family Reduviidae

  • bloodsucker

    A bloodsucker is any creature that sucks blood from a wound that it has made in an animal or person.
All related words to bloodsucking

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