bloodsucking
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bloodsucking (not comparable)
- That draws off the blood of another animal, or a person. (of an insect or animal)
- (by extension, of a person) parasitic, leechlike or freeloading
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that draws off blood
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Noun[edit]
bloodsucking (countable and uncountable, plural bloodsuckings)
- 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