Usually means: Removing blood to treat illness.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word bloodletting:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. bloodletting: Merriam-Webster
  2. bloodletting: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bloodletting: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bloodletting: Vocabulary.com
  5. Bloodletting, bloodletting: Wordnik
  6. bloodletting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. bloodletting: Wiktionary
  8. bloodletting: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. bloodletting: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. bloodletting: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. bloodletting: Dictionary.com
  12. Bloodletting (Boxer album), Bloodletting (Concrete Blonde album), Bloodletting (Overkill album), Bloodletting (The Walking Dead), Bloodletting (disambiguation), Bloodletting: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Bloodletting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. bloodletting: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. bloodletting: Rhymezone
  16. Bloodletting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. bloodletting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. bloodletting: FreeDictionary.org
  19. bloodletting: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. bloodletting: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. bloodletting: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bloodletting: Investopedia
  2. Bloodletting: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bloodletting: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. bloodletting: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Bloodletting (phlebotomy): Merck Manuals
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. bloodletting: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bloodletting: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See bloodlettings as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (historical, medicine) The archaic practice of treating illness by removing some blood, believed to be tainted, from the stricken person.
noun:  (by extension) The diminishment of any resource with the hope that this will lead to a positive effect.
noun:  A circumstance, such as a battle, where a large amount of blood is likely to be spilled through violence.

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