let blood (English, verb)
expansion: let blood (third-person singular simple present lets blood, present participle letting blood, simple past and past participle let blood)
Senses:
glosses: To extract blood from (a person, part of the body etc.).
tags: archaic
historical
transitive
glosses: To bleed someone; to extract blood from a person, part of the body etc. for supposed therapeutic purposes, especially by phlebotomy.
tags: archaic
historical
intransitive
glosses: To make (someone or something) bleed, in a general sense; to cut; to kill.
tags: figuratively
Forms:
form: lets blood
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: letting blood
tags: participle
present
form: let blood
tags: participle
past
form: let blood
tags: past