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bloodletting

noun

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Sense 1 noun

formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine)

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Sense 2 noun

indiscriminate slaughter

a bloodbath took place when the leaders of the plot surrendered

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SenseRelationGroupWord
1 domain topic Related & opposite medicine
1 domain topic Related & opposite Middle Ages
1 hypernym Types & categories medical care
1 hyponym Types & categories venesection
1 hyponym Types & categories cupping
2 hypernym Types & categories massacre