exsanguination

noun

ex·san·gui·na·tion (ˌ)ek(s)-ˌsaŋ-gwə-ˈnā-shən

: the action or process of draining or losing blood

exsanguinate

ek(s)-ˈsaŋ-gwə-ˌnāt

transitive verb

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web The event produced 320,000 Olympic-size swimming pools’ worth of lava in just three months - and the speedy exsanguination of the volcano’s shallow magma reservoir caused its summit to collapse dramatically. —

Robin George Andrews, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Dec. 2022 Her attacker inflicted so many wounds — many of them 5 inches deep — that Kupfer died from exsanguination, according to the autopsy. —

Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2022 Don’t those guys deserve a little painful exsanguination? —

Kyle Smith, National Review, 1 Apr. 2022 The official cause of death was listed as exsanguination and avulsion of the right internal thoracic artery, Schuck said in a media release obtained by the Indy Star. —

Naledi Ushe, PEOPLE.com, 7 July 2021 The black flies that Dr. Currie studies have reputedly killed large mammals when swarming them (perhaps by shock rather than what is delicately referred to as exsanguination). —

James Gorman, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2019 Both children died of exsanguination — a process that takes minutes, not seconds. —

Maureen O’connor, The Cut, 18 Mar. 2018 See More

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Word History

Etymology

Latin exsanguinatus drained of blood, from ex- + sanguin-, sanguis blood

First Known Use

circa 1909, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler

The first known use of exsanguination was circa 1909

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“Exsanguination.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/exsanguination. Accessed 27 Jan. 2023.

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