Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Bloodshed.
- noun The removal of blood, usually from a vein, as a therapeutic measure.
- noun The laying off of personnel or the elimination of resources.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In medicine, the act of letting blood or bleeding by opening a vein, as a remedial measure in the treatment of disease; phlebotomy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The archaic practice of treating
illness by removing someblood , believed to betainted , from the stricken person. - noun By extension, the
diminishment of any resource with the hope that this will lead to a positive effect. - noun A circumstance such as a
battle where a large amount of blood is likely to be spilled throughviolence .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun indiscriminate slaughter
- noun formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine)
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Examples
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The AMS blamed PM Allawi for what it characterized as the bloodletting in Fallujah: "The interim Government of Prime Minister Iyad Allawi bears full legal and historical responsibility for the war of annihilation Fallujah is exposed to today at the hands of the occupation forces and militias of some parties in the interim Government."
Archive 2004-11-01 2004
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His latest thinking, indicative of much more bloodletting, is spelled out in a brief commentary he just fired off to his newsletter subscribers.
Dan Dorfman: Will the Real Economy Please Stand Up? Dan Dorfman 2010
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Certainly, Labour frontbenchers say that once the scale of the budgetary bloodletting is made explicit, they will have their best chance yet to win back disgruntled supporters.
George Osborne's talk of percentages and billions will wash over most of us Aditya Chakrabortty 2010
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“A sharp rise in bloodletting between Shiites and minority Sunni Arabs has raised new fears of a slide to all-out civil war.”
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"It's going to be one of those elections that 10 to 15 years from now people look back and point to as a midterm bloodletting," said Stuart Rothenberg, editor of the Washington-based
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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 2009
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Change will not come from recalling the bloodletting that Americans have engaged in.
Obama's Inaugural Address: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 2009
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Change will not come from recalling the bloodletting that Americans have engaged in.
Printing: Obama's Inaugural Address: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 2009
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The legacy of the bloodletting is a deeply flawed democracy that has been unable to keep Iraqis safe.
News - latimes.com By David Zucchino 2011
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For example, one practice he claims increases longevity is bloodletting, which is regularly donating a significant amount of blood to get rid of excess iron in the body.
Forbes.com: News Kym McNicholas 2011
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