bleeding

The flow or loss of blood from a damaged blood vessel.

Adjective

  1. Losing blood.
    • The burnt and bleeding man staggered to his feet, dazed and unbelieving, and asked the startled townspeople who came running whether his fireman and guard were safe. He was kept away from the smouldering crater where...
  2. extreme, outright; bloody, blasted.
    • You are a bleeding liar. Truth is of no interest to you at all. - 1999, Paul Milne, “Why Kari Kauffman Is A Bald Faced Liar” in comp.software.year-2000
    • "You are a bleeding idiot sometimes, but I love you and", Harry hands him the first gift Severus ever gave him and says, "One hundred and sixteen." - 2004, DrusillaDax, “Battlefields”, in Sensus Fanfiction Archive,...

Origin

By surface analysis, bleed + -ing.

Derived

bleeding edge bleeding-edge bleeding-heart bleeding heart bleeding heck bleeding hell bleeding Nora bleeding oak crust bleeding sickness bleeding stump bleeding tooth fungus nonbleeding unbleeding

Adverb

  1. used as an intensifier: Extremely.
    • His car's motor is bleeding smoking down the motorway.
    • It turns out he was too bleeding cheap to ever drain the oil.
    • It does highlight some of the difficulties, but does not dare state the bleeding obvious, which is that neither are likely to play a major part in delivering a decarbonised agenda on the railways – […]. - 2021 April 7,...

Noun

  1. The flow or loss of blood from a damaged blood vessel.
    • Internal bleeding is often difficult to detect and can lead to death in a short time.
    • An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic […] real kidneys[…]. But they are nothing like as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to...
  2. Bloodletting.
    • Notwithstanding the employ of general and local bleeding, blisters, &c., the patient died on the fourth day after entrance. - 1833, R. J. Bertin, translated by Charles W. Chauncy, Treatise on the Diseases of the Heart,...
  3. Depletion of a given resource; draining, sapping, weakening.
    • the bleeding of the budget
    • the bleeding of the treasury
  4. Menstruation.
    • Owing to the prudery of Victorian times, people hardly dared talk about bleeding at all — even privately, let alone publicly.

    Synonyms: Aunt Flo Aunt Frieda Aunt Rose blob blood sports Bloody Mary blowjob week breaching the beaver dam catamenia caught short Charlie closed for maintenance come crook country cousin crimson tide crimson wave curse curse of Eve curse of Tom dropping clots entertaining the general fallen to the Communists fall off the roof flowers

  5. The migration of impressions (dents), ink, or both through the substrate (paper or otherwise).

    Synonyms: bleed-through print-through

  6. Printing past the edge of the leaf (past the trim).

Forms

bleedings

Related

bleeder bleedingly blood bloody

Derived

antibleeding bleeding time breakthrough bleeding free-bleeding free bleeding implantation bleeding love-lies-bleeding microbleeding nosebleeding reflex bleeding stop the bleeding

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of bleed