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English noun: bloodletting | |||
| 1. | bloodletting (act) formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine) | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | medical aid, medical care | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | cupping, phlebotomy, venesection | ||
| Domain category | Dark Ages, medical specialty, medicine, Middle Ages | ||
| 2. | bloodletting (act) indiscriminate slaughter | ||
| Samples | 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. | ||
| Synonyms | battue, bloodbath, bloodshed | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | butchery, carnage, mass murder, massacre, slaughter | ||
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