bloodsucking

English

Etymology

blood +‎ sucking

Pronunciation
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Adjective

bloodsucking (not comparable)

  1. That draws off the blood of another animal, or a person. (of an insect or animal)
  2. (by extension, of a person) parasitic, leechlike or freeloading

Translations

Noun

bloodsucking (countable and uncountable, plural bloodsuckings)

  1. Parasitic, leechlike behavior.
    • 1940, Basil Mathews, “Worldwide reaction to events in India”, in The Asiatic Review, volume 36, page 255:
      Economic blood-sucking of the Indian peoples, who are forced to pay immense sums of money to sustain rich Indian Civil Servants
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