lifeblood
noun
Origin of lifeblood
Related Words for lifeblood
heart, growth, soul, activity, apotheosis, core, substance, nature, root, basis, character, element, crux, meaning, principle, aspect, reality, quality, spirit, structureExamples from the Web for lifeblood
Contemporary Examples of lifeblood
This is the heart of the agent recruitment process that is the lifeblood of CIA today.
This is because immigrants are the lifeblood of the U.S. economy.
ISTANBUL, Turkey — The lifeblood of the death-dealing Islamic State is diesel fuel.
Negotiation and compromise are the lifeblood of democracy, not poison to the body politic.
As an evangelical, that sort of contrarianism is in my lifeblood.
Historical Examples of lifeblood
One reference each of "lifeblood" and "life-blood" were retained.
Red Cap TalesSamuel Rutherford Crockett
The curse impels her to attack him, to seek to drain his lifeblood.
The Supernatural in Modern English FictionDorothy Scarborough
And it was as if Dworn's own lifeblood had been drained and his own heart had stopped beating.
World of the DroneRobert Abernathy
Not while my hands are free, my body quick With lifeblood, and my heart a man's.
Virginia, A TragedyMarion Forster Gilmore
Business was crippled; industry was squeezed dry of its lifeblood.
Readings in Money and BankingChester Arthur Phillips