Definitions for lifeblood

lifeblood life·blood

Spelling: [lahyf-bluhd]
IPA: /ˈlaɪfˌblʌd/

Lifeblood is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 236 anagrams from letters in lifeblood (bdefilloo).

Definitions for lifeblood

noun

  1. the blood, considered as essential to maintain life:
  2. a life-giving, vital, or animating element:

Origin of lifeblood

First recorded in 1580-90; life + blood

Examples for lifeblood

As an evangelical, that sort of contrarianism is in my lifeblood.

This is because immigrants are the lifeblood of the U.S. economy.

Not while my hands are free, my body quick With lifeblood, and my heart a man's.

One reference each of "lifeblood" and "life-blood" were retained.

Business was crippled; industry was squeezed dry of its lifeblood.

The curse impels her to attack him, to seek to drain his lifeblood.

And it was as if Dworn's own lifeblood had been drained and his own heart had stopped beating.

This is the heart of the agent recruitment process that is the lifeblood of CIA today.

Negotiation and compromise are the lifeblood of democracy, not poison to the body politic.

ISTANBUL, Turkey — The lifeblood of the death-dealing Islamic State is diesel fuel.

Word Value for lifeblood
Scrable

15

Words with friends

18

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