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

Examples of exsanguination in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

This interchange—attack and parry—is pure Lessing, who was perpetually interested in the exsanguinations and reassertions of power. — Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026

Jeffery, the brother, died due to exsanguination from a gunshot wound to the upper left thigh, and his death was ruled a homicide. — Patrick Damp, CBS News, 20 Dec. 2025

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

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

Both children died of exsanguination — a process that takes minutes, not seconds. — Maureen O’Connor, The Cut, 18 Mar. 2018

Word History

Etymology

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

First Known Use

1833, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for exsanguination

• abbreviation
• abomination
• acceleration
• accentuation
• accommodation
• accreditation
• acculturation
• accumulation
• acetylation
• adjudication
• administration
• adulteration

Medical Definition

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

exsanguinated; exsanguinating