lifeblood
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5.3
The blood that keeps a living body alive
- noun
- /ˈlaɪfˌblʌd/
:
sangre
- Rain—the lifeblood for all savanna plants and animals—is seasonal, and for many months each year the savanna is dry and barren.
- lifeblood draining
- sucking the lifeblood
- lifeblood flows
Examples
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Water is the lifeblood of every living thing.
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For many businesses, customer satisfaction is the lifeblood of their success.
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It's the sweet lifeblood of the game.
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Your body's lifeblood is much less than 40% of your mass, Nick.
Blog text (23) -
It has cost us life and lifeblood; it has meant sacrifice and suffering.
Fiction book (1994) -
Water is the lifeblood of every living thing.
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Education is the lifeblood of a vibrant society, fostering growth and innovation.
Synonyms
lifeblood of
vslifeblood
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4.9
The main thing that keeps something working or alive
is the body's vital fluid regarded as the seat of life
source of life
vslifeblood
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4.4
A thing like the sun or water that gives life to living things
is an internal vital fluid seen as the seat of life
Idioms
How Vital
Surface Forms
lifeblood singular
lifebloods plural
Morphology
Etymology
The word lifeblood is made from life and blood, and it originally meant the blood that keeps a person alive, the body's real 'source of life'.