exsanguinate.
To drain (a living or dead body, or (medicine, surgery) a body part) of blood.
Meaning & usage
To drain (a living or dead body, or (medicine, surgery) a body part) of blood.
To kill (a person or animal) by means of blood loss.
To bleed profusely; also, to die by means of blood loss.
To cause blood to drain from a body or body part, or profuse bleeding.
Where this word comes from
PIE word *h₁ésh₂r̥ Learned borrowing from New Latin exsanguinātus (“depleted of blood, exsanguinated; lacking blood, bloodless”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Exsanguinātus is a participial adjective formed on ex- (“out, from”) + sanguī̆s (sanguin-) (“blood”) + -ātus.
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