bloodletting
noun
Origin of bloodletting
Related Words for bloodletting
murderous, murder, massacre, fighting, killing, bloodbath, carnage, bloodletting, butchery, extermination, annihilation, genocide, onslaught, gore, slaughterhouse, slaughter, bloodshed, decimation, assassination, offensiveExamples from the Web for bloodletting
Contemporary Examples of bloodletting
The bloodletting in Syria has unfolded with deliberate relentlessness.
So the question is, can Lebanon survive the "Lebanonization" of Syria without another abominable round of bloodletting?
As bloodletting continues and criminals take advantage of the political chaos, ordinary Egyptians are arming themselves.
He shrugged, “I did not expect it to go on this long,” he said of the bloodletting that had cost 100,000 lives.
Meantime, Syrians still drown in bloodletting, chaos, and refugees, while the Assad side weakens only by endless inches.
Historical Examples of bloodletting
This fever will cure him, they say it sobers like bloodletting.
Beauchamp's Career, CompleteGeorge Meredith
Quarrels were frequent enough; bloodletting was a common occupation.
With Wellington in SpainF. S. Brereton
"Bloodletting, A little more," the letter recommending, 249.
Bloodletting is supererogatory anyway, and serves merely to whet the appetite.
L-basJ. K. Huysmans
Calomel and bloodletting, for example, were two of the principal ones.
Criminal PsychologyHans Gross