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let blood en · VERB
Meanings
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(archaic, historical, transitive) To extract blood from (a person, part of the body etc.).
The Swiss […] let him blood immediately, without hesitation, being always provided with a case of lancets, against all accidents on the road.
1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 84, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume III, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:Is the foole sicke […] Alacke, let it blood.
c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
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(archaic, historical, intransitive) To bleed someone; to extract blood from a person, part of the body etc. for supposed therapeutic purposes, especially by phlebotomy.
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(figuratively) To make (someone or something) bleed, in a general sense; to cut; to kill.
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Relateds
bloodletting · bloodlet