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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. Informal. severe cutbacks or reduction in personnel, appropriations, etc.:

    The company went through a period of bloodletting in the 1970s.



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˜yÐÄvlog 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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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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Now this bloodletting is accelerating, and soon it will be time to go for the throat.

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But over the years, occasional and fitful progress was halted by bouts of bloodletting that reached a brutal apogee a generation later, when Hamas killed 1,200 Israelis on Oct.

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The latter refers to the sectarian bloodletting that followed Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein’s removal.

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