In dictionaries:
death by a thousand cuts
Lingchi, a form of execution.
Bleed India with a Thousand Cuts
a military doctrine followed by the Pakistani military against India.: 'manipulating ethnosectarian conflict and domestic challenges to power across the borders to weaken Indian security through a tactic described by several analysts as "bleed India through a thousand cuts"': 'The Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) led attack on Bombay (Mumbai) in November 2008 was emblematic of this new strategy designed to bleed India with a "war of a thousand cuts".'
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