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Phlebotomize

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To perform a phlebotomy on; bleed.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To perform a phlebotomy on (a vein): to open (a vein) to withdraw or let blood.

v. To perform a phlebotomy on (a person): to open a vein of (a person) to withdraw or let blood.

v. To perform a phlebotomy; to open a vein to withdraw or let blood.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To let blood from by opening a vein; to bleed.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To let blood from; bleed by opening a vein. Also spelled phlebotomise.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. draw blood

Word Usage

"Then have we a civil war to phlebotomize us every year, and to prevent our population from starving for want of food — and for the same purpose we have the Plague proposing us a visit, the best of all recipes for thinning a land, and converting younger brothers into elder ones."

Verb Form

phlebotomized phlebotomizing

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

care for treat

Form

phlebotomized phlebotomizing

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

bleed