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lets blood

lets blood is the third-person singular simple present indicative of let blood.

Meaning of let blood

Verb

let blood (third-person singular simple present lets blood, present participle letting blood, simple past and past participle let blood)

  1. (archaic, historical, transitive) To extract blood from (a person, part of the body etc.).
    • Is the foole sicke […] Alacke, let it blood.c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
  2. (archaic, historical, intransitive) To bleed someone; to extract blood from a person, part of the body etc. for supposed therapeutic purposes, especially by phlebotomy.
  3. (figuratively) To make (someone or something) bleed, in a general sense; to cut; to kill.

Questions about lets blood

What is lets blood the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Lets blood is the third-person singular simple present indicative of let blood.

Words near lets blood in the dictionary

  1. letrozole
  2. letrozoles
  3. lets
  4. lets alone
  5. lets be
  6. lets blood
  7. lets bygones be bygones
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  9. lets down
  10. lets drive
  11. lets fluffy off the chain

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