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Meaning of let blood | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. To extract blood from (a person, part of the body etc.).
    archaic, historical, transitive
  2. To bleed someone; to extract blood from a person, part of the body etc. for supposed therapeutic purposes, especially by phlebotomy.
    archaic, historical, intransitive
  3. To make (someone or something) bleed, in a general sense; to cut; to kill.
    figuratively

Examples

“Is the foole sicke […] Alacke, let it blood.”
“The Swiss […] let him blood immediately, without hesitation, being always provided with a case of lancets, against all accidents on the road.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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