(n.) The act or process of letting blood or bleeding, as by opening a vein or artery, or by cupping or leeches; -- esp. applied to venesection.
Example Sentences:
(1) Reference is also made to oxygen therapy, depletion management (bloodletting and-or diuretics, and their possible mechanisms.
(2) It is a microcosm of the region’s maladies and the trauma they have wrought on civilian lives – there are people here who have been wounded in sectarian bloodletting, shelling, airstrikes, occupation and crackdowns by dictators.
(3) We can survive this.” The bloodletting had names: two gunmen who came here to execute these “hundreds of idolatrous sinners” attending a “festival of perversion”, as Isis repulsively brands young fans of rock’n’roll.
(4) Far beyond Egypt , the Cairo bloodletting also highlights the uneven progress of the wider Arab spring following the lighting of the spark by an angry and desperate young man who burned himself to death in Tunisia in December 2010.
(5) Experiments on test samples of minke and sel whales showed that bloodletting with ice water made the densities of isoelectro-focused bands thinner, although species identification was still possible by using the inside part of muscles.
(6) Over the past two years, it has been a commonplace among both Sunni political figures and advisers close to Maliki to repeat that neither side has an interest in a return to the darkest and most terrible days of Iraq's sectarian bloodletting that nightly saw bodies stuffed into drains, abandoned on the rubbish tips, people – where they congregated – slaughtered by bombs.
(7) Carr's elevation was marred by another round of Labor bloodletting when reports emerged that ministers including Stephen Smith, who holds the defence portfolio, tried to block Carr's appointment.
(8) Bloodletting and leeching declined with the advent of modern medicine.
(9) Sigma-Aminocapronic acid and contrical should be added during bloodletting as well as into blood plasma before isolation of fibrinogen to avoid possible fibrinogen proteolysis.
(10) Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed Kurdish guerrilla leader and a man the prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, once said he would have liked to have seen hanged, called a ceasefire in one of the world's worst and longest-running conflicts : 30 years of bloodletting between the Turkish army and Kurdish militants.
(11) Amid all this bloodletting, most of the police stood by.
(12) Most of the accused maintain the fiction that the Tutsis were victims of a spontaneous bloodletting provoked by the murder of President Habyarimana.
(13) Malcolm Turnbull has attempted to arrest the bloodletting inside the Coalition with a full mea culpa on the election campaign and a message to conservatives that it was Tony Abbott who laid the groundwork for Labor’s successful offensive on Medicare .
(14) Both my grandmothers lost brothers in the four-year bloodletting: one in Passchendaele, the other in Gaza.
(15) Peter Bouckaert, the emergencies director at Human Rights Watch, said: "What should have been a moment of hope for the security of the Central African Republic turned into a horrific scene of bloodletting and mutilation.
(16) Bloodletting in three subjects caused a 20% decrease, reinfusion in one subject a 16% increase.
(17) "But to change his record without political bloodletting, he has to work with the existing structure."
(18) The Democrats were one of the main beneficiaries of the night, looking forward to the Republicans spending months ahead in bloodletting, using up energy and funds on each other rather than Obama.
(19) Other nonsexual cultural practices that do not fit the age distribution pattern of AIDS but may expose individuals to HIV include (1) practices resulting in exposure to blood (medicinal bloodletting, rituals establishing "blood brotherhood," and possibly ritual and medicinal enemas); (2) practices involving the use of shared instruments (injection of medicines, ritual scarification, group circumcision, genital tatooing, and shaving of body hair); and (3) contact with nonhuman primates.
(20) What emerges is both the scale of covert killings by US special forces – running 20 raids a night at one point in Afghanistan – and the unmistakable fact that these units are operating as death squads, whose bloodletting is dressed up as "targeted killings" of terrorists and insurgents for the benefit of a grateful nation back home.
Bloodshed
Definition:
(n.) The shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; the act of shedding human blood, or taking life, as in war, riot, or murder.
Example Sentences:
(1) Congolese civilians are being beaten, threatened and arrested for wearing the T-shirts of opposition candidates, raising the prospect of bloodshed during this month's elections, the UN has warned.
(2) After a night of chaos and bloodshed, Yıldırım said the government would consider reintroducing the death penalty, which would allow it to execute those behind the coup, the country’s fifth in 60 years.
(3) The latest violence reminds many here of the worst bloodshed of the 1990s.
(4) A concept so noble in the drawing rooms of Manhattan has degenerated into a sickening prelude to more bloodshed.
(5) The country needs his leadership if we are going to reduce the daily bloodshed from gun violence that we have seen for too long," Bloomberg said.
(6) In the latest bloodshed, a 27-year-old Palestinian man was shot dead during a protest in the West Bank town of Bethlehem.
(7) The US says it will not push forward on nuclear talks until South Korea is satisfied that the North has taken responsibility for last year's bloodshed.
(8) Now, with the gruesome killing of Farooq, a senior if largely colourless figure, the bloodshed appears to have spread from Pakistan to the streets of north London.
(9) They called on the military authorities and Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood movement to resume negotiations to avoid further bloodshed.
(10) The attack occurred on Monday, the station said, in a district of the southern city of Kashgar where tensions between Muslim Uighurs who call the region home and the national majority Han Chinese have led to bloodshed in recent years.
(11) Those who had to stay often seemed as angry as they were cowed by the bloodshed, and vowed to go to the polls.
(12) Greste’s release will help improve Sisi’s position after his overthrow of Mohamed Morsi, his democratically elected but unpopular predecessor, and the bloodshed that followed – even as the campaign to free two other Al-Jazeera colleagues continues.
(13) But what of those who preside over this bloodshed from distant capitals?
(14) Spanish voters punished prime minister José María Aznar's People's party for the bloodshed of last week's Madrid terrorist attacks yesterday, throwing it out of government in an angry reaction to his handling of the aftermath.
(15) It was grimly fitting that a regime that began in blood with the slaughter of hundreds of thousands in an anti-communist crackdown from 1965 to1966 ended with more bloodshed.
(16) All action must be taken to avoid further bloodshed.
(17) Far from its customary killing grounds – places we often prefer to forget – this simple and brutal weapon can bring bloodshed to any city, no matter how enlightened.
(18) The latest wave of bloodshed started a week ago, on the eve of the holy month of Ramadan, when tanks and snipers laid siege to Hama, a city in central Syria that has been a stronghold of protest.
(19) Tarantino, Django Unchained's director, had already reined in the movie's gore for the Chinese market, retouching footage to tone down the colour and bloodshed.
(20) Barely a month later the latest round of bloodshed in Gaza began.