bloodlettingnoun
uk/ˈblʌdˌlet.ɪŋ/us/ˈblʌdˌlet̬.ɪŋ/[ U ] formal killing and violence, especially between enemy groups involved in an argument that has existed for a long time:
ethnic bloodletting
[ S or U ] the situation in which a company reduces the number of people working for it:
EWS carried out further bloodletting by sacking some senior employees.
[ U ] in the past, a medical treatment in which blood was taken from a person who wasill
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Violent or aggressive
- aggressive
- aggro
- all hell breaks loose idiom
- atrocious
- atrocity
- confrontation
- desperate
- flex your muscles idiom
- forced
- forcible
- frenzied
- gay-basher
- hostile
- running with blood idiom
- sabre-rattling
- savage
- savagely
- savagery
- steep
- steeped in blood idiom
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