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bloodletting

[bluhd-let-ing]

noun

  1. the act or practice of letting blood by opening a vein; phlebotomy.

  2. bloodshed or slaughter.

  3. bloodbath.

  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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Other Word Forms

  • bloodletter noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of bloodletting1

First recorded in 1175–1225, bloodletting is from Middle English blod letunge. See blood, let 1, -ing 1
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But the guns kept coming — and the bloodletting and mayhem grew.

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Discovery come two days after the Walt Disney Co. implemented a bloodletting across its film and television marketing teams, television publicity, casting and development as well as corporate operations.

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But the most worrisome development in all this bloodletting is how Kennedy’s antipathy toward vaccines is playing out.

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Weeks later, the blood has been washed away, but the aftereffects of the bloodletting linger here in the coastal village of Al-Sanobar and throughout northwestern Syria.

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Residents who were exposed to "forever chemicals" in Jersey should be offered treatments such as bloodletting to reduce levels of contamination in their bodies, doctors and scientists have advised the island's government.

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