How to pronounce“bloodletting”in English
most people attend uh the Jumu'ah prayer. So, the Imam Bargah, or the Shiite mosque, was uh very crowded. So, it was utter destruction and
bloodletting, one of the biggest uh suicide attacks that have uh I have witnessed uh in uh in the past decade or so.
Talha Husain reporting from Islamabad, and of course, we'll continue to monitor the situation there. We'll bring you more news on that.
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Definitions of “bloodletting”
The archaic practice of treating illness by removing some blood, believed to be tainted, from the stricken person.
“The pungent pain, dyspnœa, cephalalgia, redness of the face, pulsations of the heart, strong and rapid, the pulse full and vibrating, induced M. Peyrade, then attached to that hospital, to practise blood-letting in the arm. It was followed with marked relief.”
The diminishment of any resource with the hope that this will lead to a positive effect.
“Yet another round of corporate bloodletting.”
present participle and gerund of bloodlet