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bloodletting

English

  1. 🔊 formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine)
  2. 🔊 indiscriminate slaughter
    “a bloodbath took place when the leaders of the plot surrendered”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 sangrĂ­a bloodletting

Similar words

bloodbath bloodshed battue aspiration bane bleeding blood bloodshed braining broaching cupping dealing death destruction destruction of life dispatch drafting drainage draining drawing emptying euthanasia execution extermination flow of blood