OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 34917

lifeblood

/ˈlaɪfˌblʌd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
sangre vital
Blood that is needed for continued life; blood regarded as the seat of life.
You didn't come to me in time. And by the time you came to me that fool of a doctor had bled and leeched the lifeblood out of Timmy.
[Y]ou desire his mana, yet you respect his tabu, for in you and him alike runs the common life-blood.
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