bloodsucking
adj/ˈblʌdˌsʌkɪŋ/US
Etymology
From blood + sucking.
Definitions
That draws off the blood of another animal, or a person.
- Bedbugs win neither praise for their sophisticated technique, nor very much respect for the fact that they don’t carry diseases, as most bloodsucking human ectoparasites do.
parasitic, leechlike or freeloading
Parasitic, leechlike behavior.
- Economic blood-sucking of the Indian peoples, who are forced to pay immense sums of money to sustain rich Indian Civil Servants
The neighborhood
- neighborbloodsucker
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for bloodsucking. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA