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🩸 To drain blood 💧 To weaken greatly
to exsanguinate

to exsanguinate

5 9.9
To lose a lot of blood, often causing death
  • verb
  • /ɛkˈsæŋɡwɪˌneɪt/
  • NSFW
: desangrar
  • No, she literally makes me exsanguinate.

So Ross is now in the driveway, laying down in the driveway exsanguinating and Steven is going crazy.

Examples

  • The animal was found exsanguinated in the woods, a worrying sign of the local predators.

  • That patient presented with hemorrhagic shock, but the cause was not diagnosed until autopsy after the patient had been exsanguinated.

    Academic text (2006)

  • Exsanguinate by elastic bandage or elevation, as appropriate for the patient and procedure (AORN, 2000b).

    Academic text (2002)

  • Penetrating cardiac injuries usually cause severe cardiovascular compromise either from exsanguinating hemorrhage or cardiac tamponade.

    Academic text (2007)

  • The doctor warned that if he continued to bleed, he would soon exsanguinate.

  • During the surgery, the team worked quickly to prevent the patient from exsanguinating.

Synonyms

to bleed out
vsto exsanguinate
  • NSFW
68 7.7

To lose so much blood from an injury that you may die

is the same blood loss described in formal medical language

Antonyms

to nourish
45 3.2

To give food and care so a person, animal, or plant grows and stays healthy

to revitalize
  • US
35 4.8

To give new life and energy to something

How Deadly

to exsanguinate
  • NSFW
5 9.9
to hemorrhage
  • US
51 7.8
to bleed
782 1.0
to wound
12 2.3
cut
313 1.0
to graze
35 3.7

Surface Forms

exsanguinate infinitive
exsanguinated past
exsanguinated past participle
exsanguinating present participle
exsanguinates third person singular

Morphology

exsanguinate = sanguinate (semi-transparent) = ex + sanguin + ate

Morphologically analyzable as ex- + sanguin + -ate (meaning 'remove blood'), but the root is a Latin combining form rather than a common standalone English base, so learners may not readily infer the meaning.

Etymology

Exsanguinate comes from the Latin parts ex- meaning 'out of' and sanguis meaning 'blood', and you can see the same root in the English word sanguine. It literally means to drain a large amount of blood from a person or animal, so to exsanguinate is to take the blood 'out of' someone.