1. Drawing blood from the body of another
   "a plague of bloodsucking insects" 
2. Of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another
   "bloodsucking blackmailer"
   - parasitic, parasitical, leechlike

See also: bloody, dependent

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