bloodletting
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ɪŋ noun
1.
the act or practice of letting blood by opening a vein; phlebotomy.
2.
bloodshed or slaughter.
3.
4.
Informal. severe cutbacks or reduction in personnel, appropriations, etc.: The company went through a period of bloodletting in the 1970s.
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bloodletting blood·let·ting (blŭd'lět'ĭng)
n.
The theropeutic removal of blood, usually from a vein.
blood'let'ter n.
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Example sentences
The corpses are piling up, the mood is dark and foreboding, and the evidence of bloodletting is everywhere.
And the quickest way to remedy was the imbalance was through bloodletting.
Our people hatred of bloodletting and military rule.
Rival cartels have begun trying to outdo one another in displays of depraved bloodletting.
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