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Overview of noun bloodletting
The noun bloodletting has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. bloodletting -- (formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine))
2. bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed, battue -- (indiscriminate slaughter; "a bloodbath took place when the leaders of the plot surrendered"; "ten days after the bloodletting Hitler gave the action its name"; "the valley is no stranger to bloodshed and murder"; "a huge prison battue was ordered")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun bloodletting
2 senses of bloodletting
Sense 1
bloodletting
=> medical care, medical aid
=> treatment
=> care, attention, aid, tending
=> work
=> activity
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed, battue
=> slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery
=> murder, slaying, execution
=> homicide
=> killing, kill, putting to death
=> termination, ending, conclusion
=> change of state
=> change
=> action
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun bloodletting
1 of 2 senses of bloodletting
Sense 1
bloodletting
=> venesection, phlebotomy
=> cupping
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun bloodletting
2 senses of bloodletting
Sense 1
bloodletting
=> medical care, medical aid
Sense 2
bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed, battue
=> slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery
Antonyms of noun bloodletting
Member Holonyms of noun bloodletting
Substance Holonyms of noun bloodletting
Part Holonyms of noun bloodletting
Member Meronyms of noun bloodletting
Substance Meronyms of noun bloodletting
Part Meronyms of noun bloodletting
Meronyms of noun bloodletting
Holonyms of noun bloodletting
Attributes of noun bloodletting
Derived Forms of noun bloodletting
Domain of noun bloodletting
1 of 2 senses of bloodletting
Sense 1
bloodletting
TOPIC>(noun) Middle Ages#1, Dark Ages#1
TOPIC>(noun) medicine#1, medical specialty#1
Domain Terms of noun bloodletting
Familiarity of noun bloodletting
bloodletting used as a noun is rare (polysemy count =2)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun bloodletting
2 senses of bloodletting
Sense 1
bloodletting
> medical care, medical aid
=> primary care
=> aftercare
=> hospitalization, hospitalisation, hospital care
=> therapy
=> nursing care
=> irrigation
=> dressing, bandaging, binding
=> holistic medicine
=> hospice
=> injection, shot
=> bloodletting
=> defibrillation
=> detoxification
=> disinfection
=> digitalization, digitalisation
=> anticoagulation
=> allopathy
=> homeopathy, homoeopathy
=> intensive care
Sense 2
bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed, battue
> slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery
=> bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed, battue
HAS INSTANCE=> Alamo
HAS INSTANCE=> Little Bighorn, Battle of Little Bighorn, Battle of the Little Bighorn, Custer's Last Stand
Meronyms of noun bloodletting
2 senses of bloodletting
Sense 1
bloodletting
=> medical care, medical aid
HAS PART: medical diagnosis
HAS PART: diagnostic procedure, diagnostic technique
=> treatment
HAS PART: remedy, curative, cure, therapeutic
Holonyms of noun bloodletting
Grep of noun bloodletting
bloodletting
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