Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To drain of blood.
- intransitive verb To be drained of blood.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To render bloodless.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To kill by means of
blood loss. - verb intransitive To die by means of
blood loss. - verb To drain a body (living or dead) of blood.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A broadhead to the heart and a person would exsanguinate in seconds, just like the deer.
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A broadhead to the heart and a person would exsanguinate in seconds, just like the deer.
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Tip: make sure you have a clean towel on the bed to mop up, in case you exsanguinate during the act.
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In summer, biting insects can exsanguinate a mule; in winter, the cold can freeze your eyelids shut.
Review of John Vaillant's "The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival" Sy Montgomery 2010
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If the aorta were ruptured the victim would exsanguinate.
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Unfortunately, people like this will be holding up traffic for hours while the med techs patently wait for them to exsanguinate.
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And that can lead to devastating amounts of blood loss to the point where somebody could actually exsanguinate.
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At first the awed and fascinated occupants of Alexander thought it must be blood from a slain whale, then realized that no leviathan could exsanguinate enough to dye the water scarlet as far as the eye could see.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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At first the awed and fascinated occupants of Alexander thought it must be blood from a slain whale, then realized that no leviathan could exsanguinate enough to dye the water scarlet as far as the eye could see.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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A woman could exsanguinate in ten to fifteen minutes from utenne hemorrhage, but it only took thirty seconds to bleed to death from a hole in the body's biggest artery.
The Silent Cradle Cuthbert, Margaret 1998
whichbe commented on the word exsanguinate
To kill or die by means of blood loss.
May 21, 2008