Schröpfen — meaning in English
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English meaning
- bloodletting noun The old medical practice of draining blood from a patient believed to cure illness.
- gouge noun A chisel with a curved blade, used to cut grooves or hollows into wood or stone.
Senses
Schröpfen is used for these senses in English:
- bloodletting (historical, medicine) The archaic practice of treating illness by removing some blood, believed to be tainted, from the stricken person.
- cupping (medicine) Fire cupping, a traditional therapeutic treatment called in which heated cupping glasses are applied to the skin, supposedly to draw blood towards the surface.
- gouge (transitive) To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price.
- take to the cleaners (originally, US, slang, idiomatic) To take a significant quantity of a person's money or valuables, through overcharging, litigation, unfavorable investing, gambling, fraud, etc.
bloodletting — full definition
- noun The old medical practice of draining blood from a patient believed to cure illness.
- noun (figurative) A painful reduction of something, such as staff or funding, in hopes of improving the situation.
gouge — full definition
- noun A chisel with a curved blade, used to cut grooves or hollows into wood or stone.
- noun A groove or hole left behind, as if cut by such a tool.
- verb To dig, scoop, or cut a groove or hole into something.
- verb To overcharge someone, especially by taking unfair advantage of a situation.