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bloodletting 音标拼音: [bl'ʌdl ,ɛtɪŋ] n. 放血 放血 bloodletting n 1: formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood ( one of the four humors of medieval medicine) 2: indiscriminate slaughter; " a bloodbath took place when the leaders of the plot surrendered"; " ten days after the bloodletting Hitler gave the action its name"; " the valley is no stranger to bloodshed and murder"; " a huge prison battue was ordered" [ synonym: { bloodbath}, { bloodletting}, { bloodshed}, { battue}] Bloodletting \ Blood" let` ting\, n. ( 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. [ 1913 Webster] 48 Moby Thesaurus words for " bloodletting": aspiration, bane, bleeding, blood, bloodshed, braining, broaching, cupping, dealing death, destruction, destruction of life, dispatch, drafting, drainage, draining, drawing, emptying, euthanasia, execution, extermination, flow of blood, gore, immolation, kill, killing, lapidation, leeching, martyrdom, martyrization, mercy killing, milking, phlebotomy, pipetting, poisoning, pumping, ritual killing, ritual murder, sacrifice, shooting, siphoning, slaughter, slaying, stoning, sucking, suction, taking of life, tapping, venesection
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