bloodletting

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• March 11. 2013 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  bloodletting — noun — english

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

• February 27. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  bloodletting — noun — english

  indiscriminate slaughter; "a bloodbath took place when the leaders of the plot surrendered"; "ten days after the bloodletting Hitler gave the action its name"; "the valley is no stranger to bloodshed and murder"; "a huge prison battue was ordered"