Antonyms for lifeblood


Grammar : Noun
Spell : lahyf-bluhd
Phonetic Transcription : ˈlaɪfˌblʌd


Definition of lifeblood

Origin :
  • also life-blood, 1580s, "blood necessary for life," from life (n.) + blood (n.). Figurative and transferred use is from 1590s.
  • As in life : noun animation, spirit
  • As in quintessence : noun essence, core
  • As in whole blood : noun unmodified blood
  • As in essence : noun heart, significance
Example sentences :
  • One reference each of "lifeblood" and "life-blood" were retained.
  • Extract from : « Red Cap Tales » by Samuel Rutherford Crockett
  • The curse impels her to attack him, to seek to drain his lifeblood.
  • Extract from : « The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction » by Dorothy Scarborough
  • And it was as if Dworn's own lifeblood had been drained and his own heart had stopped beating.
  • Extract from : « World of the Drone » by Robert Abernathy
  • Not while my hands are free, my body quick With lifeblood, and my heart a man's.
  • Extract from : « Virginia, A Tragedy » by Marion Forster Gilmore
  • Business was crippled; industry was squeezed dry of its lifeblood.
  • Extract from : « Readings in Money and Banking » by Chester Arthur Phillips
  • This wine is my lifeblood, which I give that you may have eternal life.
  • Extract from : « Men Called Him Master » by Elwyn Allen Smith
  • Hundreds of thousands of men dyed its soil with their lifeblood.
  • Extract from : « America's War for Humanity » by Thomas Herbert Russell
  • Gradual and slow the lifeblood flowed again, and with it thought, although confused and tangled.
  • Extract from : « Mirk Abbey, Volume 1(of 3) » by James Payn
  • What other man ever put forty millions of money and his lifeblood into a railroad?
  • Extract from : « Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 11 (of 14) » by Elbert Hubbard
  • The only green thing was some ivy, a parasitic vampire which drew its lifeblood from the mouldering corpse of an old church.
  • Extract from : « The Moon Rock » by Arthur J. Rees

Synonyms for lifeblood

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