"let blood" meaning in English

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      "form": "lets blood",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "letting blood",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "let blood",
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        "past"
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    },
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "word": "bloodlet"
    },
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      "_dis1": "50 46 4",
      "word": "bloodletting"
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        {
          "ref": "c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):",
          "text": "Is the foole sicke […] Alacke, let it blood.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 84, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume III, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "The Swiss […] let him blood immediately, without hesitation, being always provided with a case of lancets, against all accidents on the road.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To extract blood from (a person, part of the body etc.)."
      ],
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        "(transitive, now archaic or historical) To extract blood from (a person, part of the body etc.)."
      ],
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        "archaic",
        "historical",
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      "glosses": [
        "To bleed someone; to extract blood from a person, part of the body etc. for supposed therapeutic purposes, especially by phlebotomy."
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          "bleed",
          "bleed"
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        [
          "therapeutic",
          "therapeutic"
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        [
          "phlebotomy",
          "phlebotomy"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, now archaic or historical) To bleed someone; to extract blood from a person, part of the body etc. for supposed therapeutic purposes, especially by phlebotomy."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "historical",
        "intransitive"
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        "To make (someone or something) bleed, in a general sense; to cut; to kill."
      ],
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          "bleed",
          "bleed"
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        [
          "cut",
          "cut"
        ],
        [
          "kill",
          "kill"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) To make (someone or something) bleed, in a general sense; to cut; to kill."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "let blood"
}

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      "form": "lets blood",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "letting blood",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "let blood",
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    },
    {
      "form": "let blood",
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    }
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    {
      "word": "bloodlet"
    },
    {
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    }
  ],
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        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs"
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        {
          "ref": "c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):",
          "text": "Is the foole sicke […] Alacke, let it blood.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 84, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume III, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "The Swiss […] let him blood immediately, without hesitation, being always provided with a case of lancets, against all accidents on the road.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To extract blood from (a person, part of the body etc.)."
      ],
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        "(transitive, now archaic or historical) To extract blood from (a person, part of the body etc.)."
      ],
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        "To bleed someone; to extract blood from a person, part of the body etc. for supposed therapeutic purposes, especially by phlebotomy."
      ],
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        [
          "bleed",
          "bleed"
        ],
        [
          "therapeutic",
          "therapeutic"
        ],
        [
          "phlebotomy",
          "phlebotomy"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, now archaic or historical) To bleed someone; to extract blood from a person, part of the body etc. for supposed therapeutic purposes, especially by phlebotomy."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "historical",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To make (someone or something) bleed, in a general sense; to cut; to kill."
      ],
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        [
          "bleed",
          "bleed"
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        [
          "cut",
          "cut"
        ],
        [
          "kill",
          "kill"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) To make (someone or something) bleed, in a general sense; to cut; to kill."
      ],
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        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "let blood"
}