Word: bloodletting
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: blood
let
ting
Definition: The archaic practice of treating illness by removing some blood, believed to be tainted, from the stricken person.
Morphemes:
Affix: blood
Language: en
PoS: Verb
Meaning: To cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.
Affix: let
Language: en
PoS: Verb
Meaning: To allow the release of (a fluid).
Affix: -ing
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form uncountable nouns from verbs denoting the act of doing something, an action.