Usually means: Drain blood from a body.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. exsanguinate: Merriam-Webster
  2. exsanguinate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. exsanguinate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. exsanguinate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. exsanguinate: Wordnik
  6. exsanguinate: Wiktionary
  7. exsanguinate: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. exsanguinate: Dictionary.com
  9. exsanguinate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. exsanguinate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. exsanguinate: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. exsanguinate: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See exsanguination as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (exsanguinate)

verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To drain (a living or dead body, or (medicine, surgery) a body part) of blood.
verb:  To kill (a person or animal) by means of blood loss.
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  To bleed profusely; also, to die by means of blood loss.
verb:  To cause blood to drain from a body or body part, or profuse bleeding.

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