Meaning of bloodsucker | Babel Free
ˈblʌdˌsʌkɚDefinitions
- An animal that drinks the blood of others, especially by sucking blood through a puncture wound; a hemovore.
- Any parasite.
- Any mosquito, gnat, midge, or other small bug which consumes human blood.
- One who attempts to take as much from others as possible; a leech.
- A vampire.
- The changeable lizard (Calotes versicolor).
Equivalents
Български
кърлеж
Dansk
blodsuger
Ελληνικά
αιματορουφήχτρα
Suomi
verenimijä
Galego
samesuga
हिन्दी
ख़ून-आशाम
Bahasa Indonesia
pelesit
日本語
吸血動物
한국어
흡혈동물
Polski
krwiopijca
Examples
“Meyer, in turn⟳, offered a chaste variation on the promiscuous bloodsuckers of Anne Rice. And back in Rice’s heyday of the 1980s and ’90s, mass market copies of her “Interview With the Vampire” occupied the same spinning racks as other critically slammed authors of the ’70s and ’80s: Danielle Steel, Sidney Sheldon, Judith Krantz, Jackie Collins.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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