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BLOODSUCKING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bloodsucking mean?
• BLOODSUCKING (adjective)
The adjective BLOODSUCKING has 2 senses:
1. drawing blood from the body of another
2. of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another
Familiarity information: BLOODSUCKING used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Drawing blood from the body of another
Context example:
a plague of bloodsucking insects
Similar:
bloody (having or covered with or accompanied by blood)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another
Synonyms:
bloodsucking; leechlike; parasitic; parasitical
Context example:
his indolent leechlike existence
Similar:
dependent (relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed)
Context examples
An invertebrate animal (e.g., tick, mite, mosquito, bloodsucking fly) capable of transmitting an infectious agent among vertebrates.
(Disease Vector, NCI Thesaurus)
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