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Synonyms for blood-letting

  • noun

Most common

blood bath bleeding bloodshed phlebotomy

All synonyms

Noun

bloodshed, bleeding, blood bath, phlebotomy, venesection rare, battue rare

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    The archaic practice of treating illness by removing some blood, believed to be tainted, from the stricken person.

Related words

Other spellings
bloodletting

Example sentences

  • bleeding Tom cut his finger and it's bleeding pretty badly.
  • bloodshed The Algerian government wants to avoid bloodshed.

By length

6 letters
battue
8 letters
bleeding2
9 letters
bloodshed2
10 letters
phlebotomy
11 letters
venesection

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (bleeding2 = 2 syllables).