blood-letting

/ ˈblʌdˌlɛtɪŋ /

noun

the therapeutic removal of blood, as in relieving congestive heart failure See also phlebotomy
bloodshed, esp in a blood feud

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It is surely preferable to blood-letting in the guise of ideologically-guided nation-building.

In fact the Abrahamic sacrifice had nothing to do with the physical act of blood-letting.

The only known blood letting between future Nobel Prize winners.

Louis the Goon seemed to have a blind genius for getting on the scene when some blood-letting was due.

At the present time Sheppy lacks something of his customary steam owing to a rather serious blood-letting.

The blood-letting was a sorely needed medicine to her choked veins.

Without a little blood-letting this Union will not, in my estimation, be worth a rush.

The most usual resort in these cases of obstinate rigidity is blood-letting.

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