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blood-sucking

blood-sucking is the alternative form of bloodsucking.

Meaning of bloodsucking

Adjective

bloodsucking (not comparable)

  1. That draws off the blood of another animal, or a person.
    • Bedbugs win neither praise for their sophisticated technique, nor very much respect for the fact that they don’t carry diseases, as most bloodsucking human ectoparasites do.2010 August 7, May Berenbaum, “This Bedbug’s Life”, in The New York Times
  2. (broadly) parasitic, leechlike or freeloading

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Questions about blood-sucking

What is blood-sucking the alternative form of?
Blood-sucking is the alternative form of bloodsucking.

Words near blood-sucking in the dictionary

  1. blood-stained
  2. blood-stained cockatoo
  3. blood-stained cockatoos
  4. blood-sucker
  5. blood-suckers
  6. blood-sucking
  7. blood-tax
  8. blood-taxes
  9. blood-test
  10. blood-tested
  11. blood-testing

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