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Bloodsucking   /blˈədsˌəkɪŋ/   Listen
Bloodsucking

adjective
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.  Synonyms: leechlike, parasitic, parasitical.  "Parasitic vines that strangle the trees" , "Bloodsucking blackmailer" , "His indolent leechlike existence"






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"Bloodsucking" Quotes from Famous Books



... pair of Heels. He left a very cool Letter for the Chaplain in the hands of the master of the Inn where we put up, in which he repeated his old uncivil Accusation, that we had eaten him out of House and Home, that we were Leeches, Pirates, bloodsucking vampires, and the like—myself he even did the honour to call a Designing Cockatrice—and that he had fled from us to save the small remains of his Fortune from being Devoured, and intended to rejoin his long-neglected Mamma. Mr. ...
— The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 • George Augustus Sala



Words linked to "Bloodsucking" :   bloody, dependent



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