[
UK
/blˈʌdlɪtɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈbɫədˌɫɛtɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈbɫədˌɫɛtɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine)
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indiscriminate slaughter
ten days after the bloodletting Hitler gave the action its name
a huge prison battue was ordered
the valley is no stranger to bloodshed and murder
a bloodbath took place when the leaders of the plot surrendered
How To Use bloodletting In A Sentence
- Change will not come from recalling the bloodletting that Americans have engaged in. Obama's Inaugural Address: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- Both societies have a mixed history that included periods of peaceful, cooperative politics and periods of violence and bloodletting.
- As the crime wave continues with little let-up in the senseless bloodletting that has engulfed the country, many people are politicising the issue.
- EWS carried out further bloodletting by sacking senior employees, but has acquired a new chief executive.
- The bloodletting at the organisation, which employs 6,000 people across the country, follows a report which was highly critical of the corporation.
- Tragic as all this violence and bloodletting is, even I am starting to have trouble distinguishing these reports from one another, day after day.
- Yet when the film ramps up, with the underlying percussive score beginning to race like a thumping heartbeat, it explodes in an all-out orgiastic bloodletting intercut with a joyous dance sequence.
- Someone must stop it, someone has to, or it shall all end in a violent storm of bloodletting.
- The poles are a hangover from the days when barbers doubled as surgeons and carried out bloodletting.
- Then, your doctor might have recommended such treatments as bloodletting or taking dangerous doses of sulfur and mercury.