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Meaning of bloodsucker | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
ˈblʌdˌsʌkɚ

Definitions

  1. An animal that drinks the blood of others, especially by sucking blood through a puncture wound; a hemovore.
  2. Any parasite.
  3. Any mosquito, gnat, midge, or other small bug which consumes human blood.
  4. One who attempts to take as much from others as possible; a leech.
  5. A vampire.
  6. The changeable lizard (Calotes versicolor).

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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 herInterview With the Vampireoccupied 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
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This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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