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单词 blood-letting
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blood-letting

1. uncountable noun
Blood-letting is violence or killing between groups of people, especially between rival armies.
Once again there's been ferocious blood-letting in the township.
2. uncountable noun
Journalists sometimes refer to a bitter quarrel between two groups of people from within the same organization as blood-letting.
Hopefully a satisfactory solution can be reached without much blood-letting.

blood-letting in British English

(ˈblʌdˌlɛtɪŋ)
noun
1. 
the therapeutic removal of blood, as in relieving congestive heart failure
See also phlebotomy
2. 
bloodshed, esp in a blood feud

Examples of 'blood-letting' in a sentence
blood-letting

This was a territory of religion, ideology, blood-letting, a land forever fought over, passionately disputed.
Aldiss, Brian SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE (2002)
Some of them were hawkers from the traffic lights, looking to break up the boredom of their day with a bit of blood-letting.
Robert Wilson A DARKENING STAIN (2002)
`The war is over, the victors always have their blood-letting, then it's life back to normal.
Grace, C.L A SHRINE OF MURDERS (2002)
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