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blood-letting
/ ˈblʌdˌlɛtɪŋ /
noun
- the therapeutic removal of blood, as in relieving congestive heart failure See also phlebotomy
- bloodshed, esp in a blood feud
Example Sentences
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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