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Meanings of bloodsucker in English

Portuguese
sanguessuga
Catalan
hirudini
Spanish
hirudinea

Carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end.

sanguessuga

Animal that drinks the blood of others sucking it through a puncture wound.

Synonyms
Examples for "leech"
Examples for "leech"
1
The leech came and confirmed the fact.-Thehouse was closed and barred.
The Bride of the Nile — Volume 12
2
The king hardening himself as the leech assumed a more lofty tone:
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction
3
And now all the evening he sucked the books like a leech.
It Is Never Too Late to Mend
4
I would try venesection; then cup, if necessary, or leech the temple.
Hard Cash
5
The leech farm makes a tidy profit shipping them to doctors worldwide.
Reuters
Usage of bloodsucker in English
1
What should I say to a bloodsucker who's lost a million dollars?
Three stations: an arkady renko novel
2
Yup, they were the only ancient culture to have no bloodsucker mythology.
Silver zombie: delilah street: paranormal investigator
3
And Abhartach was the original bloodsucker, if legend is to be believed.
The Irish Times
4
If there's a bloodsucker in this 'ere county, it's that very chap.
The Pioneers; Or, The Sources of the Susquehanna
5
It's a damnable bloodsucker to be hitched on to any political party!
The Ramrodders: A Novel
6
I wish every pansexual bloodsucker could know the happiness you gave to me.
The new yorker
7
If I ruin the estate and go barefoot, I shall stuff this bloodsucker.
The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale
8
He's not tanned; famously, he has the pallor of an eternally youthful bloodsucker.
The Guardian
9
Daughter of a hellhound, named for a soul-sucker and a bloodsucker.
Timeless
10
You've skinned us out of all we had, you damned bloodsucker.
Tangled Trails: A Western Detective Story
11
Because he's a thief, a liar, a cheat and a bloodsucker.
King Rat
12
All of 'em are whores, total whores, just like the bloodsucker next to me.
The black minutes
13
We're going to do that bloodsucker Braunschweiger in today.
The hangman's daughter
14
And then there's the *Twilight *highlight: a visually stylish game of bloodsucker baseball.
Wired
15
The other five hundred dollars I must send to that bloodsucker, that heartless creditor Werner.
Louisa of Prussia and Her Times: A Historical Novel
16
But he is worse: he is a child-robber, a bloodsucker, a hypocrite and a cheat.
Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy
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Translations for bloodsucker
Portuguese
sanguessuga
Catalan
hirudini
Spanish
hirudinea
Bloodsucker through the time