exsanguination
noun
ex·san·gui·na·tion
(ˌ)ek(s)-ˌsaŋ-gwə-ˈnā-shən 
: the action or process of draining or losing blood
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Jeffery, the brother, died due to exsanguination from a gunshot wound to the upper left thigh, and his death was ruled a homicide.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Naledi Ushe,
PEOPLE.com,
7 July 2021
Both children died of exsanguination — a process that takes minutes, not seconds.
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Maureen O’Connor,
The Cut,
18 Mar. 2018
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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
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exsanguination
noun
ex·san·gui·na·tion
(ˌ)ek(s)-ˌsaŋ-gwə-ˈnā-shən
: the action or process of draining or losing blood
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