Cut
Cut verb - To penetrate with a sharp edge (as a knife).
Draw blood and cut are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Draw blood" instead a verb "Cut".
Draw blood
Cut and draw blood are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cut" instead a verb phrase "Draw blood".
Both terms in one sentence
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Similarly, Aquaman is able to take machine gun fire, but it does cut his skin and draw blood, so he wears Atlantean scale armour.
Source: Super Toughness - He has so far been invulnerable to most everything, including dragon fire, but he has no resistance to intangible things like wraiths, and the Hunter's BFS once cut him just enough to draw blood.
Source: Nigh-Invulnerability - The "Mass Transit" incident involving Extreme Championship Wrestling's New Jack: a 17-year old teen who lied about being a trained wrestler was subbed into a match where he asked to be bladed (cut open to draw blood for effect).
Source: Fatal Method Acting
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