bloodletting

noun /blədlɛtɪŋ/ 3 syllables 12 letters Scrabble 16 WWF 21

Definitions

noun

indiscriminate slaughter

“ten days after the bloodletting Hitler gave the action its name”

noun

formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine)

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