Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Sucking or drawing blood; preying on the blood: as, “blood-sucking sighs,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective drawing blood from the body of another.
- adjective having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another; -- of plants or persons.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of an animal That draws off the
blood of another animal - adjective by extension, of a person
parasitic ,leechlike orfreeloading
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another
- adjective drawing blood from the body of another
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