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verb
To extract blood from (a person, part of the body etc.).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, historical, transitive
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verb
To bleed someone; to extract blood from a person, part of the body etc. for supposed therapeutic purposes, especially by phlebotomy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, historical, intransitive
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verb
To make (someone or something) bleed, in a general sense; to cut; to kill.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
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History
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