exsanguination
noun
ex·san·gui·na·tion
(ˌ)ek(s)-ˌsaŋ-gwə-ˈnā-shən 
: the action or process of draining or losing blood
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The tragic scene with the singing boy conscious while getting his throat slit doesn’t really work unless his blood becomes that memorable deep-red waterfall, rapturously representing Angelo’s loss of innocence and an overflowing societal grief via a singular haunting exsanguination.
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Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 21 June 2024
The event produced 320,000 Olympic-size swimming pools’ worth of lava in just three months - and the speedy exsanguination of the volcano’s shallow magma reservoir caused its summit to collapse dramatically.
—Robin George Andrews, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Dec. 2022
Her attacker inflicted so many wounds — many of them 5 inches deep — that Kupfer died from exsanguination, according to the autopsy.
—Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2022
Don’t those guys deserve a little painful exsanguination?
—Kyle Smith, National Review, 1 Apr. 2022
The official cause of death was listed as exsanguination and avulsion of the right internal thoracic artery, Schuck said in a media release obtained by the Indy Star.
—Naledi Ushe, PEOPLE.com, 7 July 2021
The black flies that Dr. Currie studies have reputedly killed large mammals when swarming them (perhaps by shock rather than what is delicately referred to as exsanguination).
—James Gorman, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2019
Both children died of exsanguination — a process that takes minutes, not seconds.
—Maureen O’Connor, The Cut, 18 Mar. 2018
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Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 21 June 2024
The event produced 320,000 Olympic-size swimming pools’ worth of lava in just three months - and the speedy exsanguination of the volcano’s shallow magma reservoir caused its summit to collapse dramatically.
—Robin George Andrews, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Dec. 2022
Her attacker inflicted so many wounds — many of them 5 inches deep — that Kupfer died from exsanguination, according to the autopsy.
—Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2022
Don’t those guys deserve a little painful exsanguination?
—Kyle Smith, National Review, 1 Apr. 2022
The official cause of death was listed as exsanguination and avulsion of the right internal thoracic artery, Schuck said in a media release obtained by the Indy Star.
—Naledi Ushe, PEOPLE.com, 7 July 2021
The black flies that Dr. Currie studies have reputedly killed large mammals when swarming them (perhaps by shock rather than what is delicately referred to as exsanguination).
—James Gorman, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2019
Both children died of exsanguination — a process that takes minutes, not seconds.
—Maureen O’Connor, The Cut, 18 Mar. 2018
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exsanguination
noun
ex·san·gui·na·tion
(ˌ)ek(s)-ˌsaŋ-gwə-ˈnā-shən
: the action or process of draining or losing blood
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