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bloodletting has definitions from the fields of law,criminal law,medicine
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[ noun ] (medicine) formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine)

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medical_care venesection cupping middle_ages medicine

2
[ noun ] (law,criminal law) indiscriminate slaughter

Synonyms

bloodshed battue bloodbath

Related terms

massacre slaughter

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Rhymes with

letting collecting reflecting updating pulsating offsetting unrelenting reflecting accommodating invalidating validating moderating dating petting betting updating getting setting wetting netting populating assimilating stimulating deregulating oscillating calculating titillating regulating circulating vacillating isolating editing outing putting interpreting upsetting alerting cutting jetting batting shoplifting vaulting uplifting salting crediting supplanting plating humiliating intimidating frustrating accelerating penetrating outfitting radiating exhilarating looting lighting insulting augmenting halting resulting comforting thermosetting offsetting handwriting sweating doubting doting highlighting matting biting acting tempting protesting taunting citing fighting ousting siting yachting whiting rotting writing sighting lasting protesting protecting bullfighting abducting conducting rusting flirting bunting completing projecting debilitating precipitating delegating integrating incriminating placating piloting deprecating participating coordinating detonating operating fascinating nominating illuminating motivating contaminating locating self-deprecating exalting balloting devastating testing fluctuating lactating legislating agitating discriminating tenting hesitating aggravating disseminating implicating communicating alienating investigating activating resonating suffocating duplicating relegating complicating subordinating irritating annotating reciprocating indicating vibrating dominating wetting hunting baiting ting planting slanting blasting averting abating trusting grunting asserting elating starting hurting weighting mating waiting rating weightlifting wilting tasting transplanting accepting everlasting erupting fasting darting spouting daunting spotting casting sorting carting parting broadcasting panting obliterating mounting thrusting costing listing scouting wanting courting counting ranting consenting connecting somersaulting depreciating ingratiating confronting buffeting excruciating hallucinating

Phonetic and Homophones

B L AH1 D L EH2 T IH0 NG

Similar Spelling

bloodlust bloodline bloodless bloodleaf bloodlessly

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