exsanguinate

1. (transitive)Examples: "The substance of the brain was not congested but, on the contrary, exsanguinated."; "At the battle of Ball's Bluff, I saw a soldier having a shot flesh-wound of the left arm, who was much weakened and exsanguinated from a venous hemorrhage that was caused by applying an improvised tourniquet above the wound (it was done by a comrade), and was readily stopped on removing the cause."; "Dr. [J. Leonard] Corning first exsanguinates the part to be anæsthetized with an Esmarch bandage. He next applies a tourniquet above the bandage and the latter is removed."Synonyms: bleed whitetransitive

2. (transitive)Examples: "And I do have to admit that once the episode revealed that the girls killed their dads because of a chromosomal predisposition, I made a note to have my daughter tested for that "exsanguinate your father" gene!"Synonyms: bleed outtransitive

3. (intransitive)Examples: "Universal precautions may not always be instituted in emergencies, as the nurse may find herself with no time to put on a pair of gloves or put on a gown and mask. A few examples of emergency cases are: patients that start to exsanguinate, vomiting blood in a projectile manner all over the room, […]"; "He won't tolerate not doing a resection. Now let's get this stomach out and get out of here before he exsanguinates on the table!"Synonyms: bleed outintransitive

4. (intransitive)Examples: "A mild galvanic current stimulates functional activity, promotes absorption; a stronger current contracts and exsanguinates."; "If sterile blood [from a rat] is required an alternative method is to exsanguinate under terminal anaesthesia by withdrawing blood from the heart with a sterile syringe and needle."; "Ulcerative colitis is highly variable in its clinical manifestations. […] [B]leeding may be profuse, virtually exsanguinating and continuous, responding only to total colectomy, and the diarrhea may be voluminous, watery and lead rapidly to volume depletion and shock."intransitive