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bloodsucker

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Noun
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blood=suck=er

CIDE DICTIONARY

bloodsuckern. 
  •  Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species.  [1913 Webster]
  •  One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an extortioner.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

bloodsucker, n.
1 an animal or insect that sucks blood, esp. a leech.
2 an extortioner.

Derivative
bloodsucking adj.

THESAURUS

bloodsucker

barnacle, bedbug, blackmailer, extortioner, extortionist, freeloader, hanger-on, harpy, leech, lounge lizard, moocher, mosquito, parasite, predator, profiteer, racketeer, raptor, scrounge, scrounger, shakedown artist, shark, spiv, sponge, sponger, sucker, tick, vampire, vulture, wood tick

ROGET THESAURUS

bloodsucker

Evil doer

N evil doer, evil worker, wrongdoer, mischief-maker, marplot, oppressor, tyrant, destroyer, Vandal, iconoclast, firebrand, incendiary, fire bug, pyromaniac, anarchist, communist, terrorist, savage, brute, ruffian, barbarian, semibarbarian, caitiff, desperado, Apache, hoodlum, hood, plug-ugly, Red Skin, tough, Mohawk, Mo-hock, Mo-hawk, bludgeon man, bully, rough, hooligan, larrikin, dangerous classes, ugly customer, thief, cockatrice, scorpion, hornet, snake, viper, adder, snake in the grass, serpent, cobra, asp, rattlesnake, anaconda, canker-worm, wire-worm, locust, Colorado beetle, alacran, alligator, caymon, crocodile, mosquito, mugger, octopus, torpedo, bane, cutthroat, cannibal, anthropophagus, anthropophagist, bloodsucker, vampire, ogre, ghoul, gorilla, vulture, gyrfalcon, gerfalcon, wild beast, tiger, hyena, butcher, hangman, blood-hound, hell- hound, sleuth-hound, catamount, cougar, jaguar, puma, hag, hellhag, beldam, Jezebel, monster, fiend, devil incarnate, demon in human shape, Frankenstein's monster, harpy, siren, Furies, Eumenides, Hun, Attila, scourge of the human race, faenum habet in cornu.


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