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bleeding

[ blee-ding ]

noun

  1. the act, fact, or process of losing blood or having blood flow.
  2. the act or process of drawing blood from a person, especially surgically; bloodletting.
  3. the extension of color beyond an edge or border, especially so as to combine with a contiguous color or to affect an adjacent area.


adjective

  1. sending forth blood:

    a bleeding sore.

  2. feeling, expressing, or characterized by extreme or excessive anguish and compassion.
  3. British Slang. (used as an intensifier):

    bleeding fool.

adverb

  1. British Slang. (used as an intensifier):

    a bleeding silly idea.

bleeding

/ ˈbliːdɪŋ /

adjective

  1. (intensifier)

    a bleeding fool

    it's bleeding beautiful



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Other Words From

  • non·bleeding adjective noun
  • un·bleeding adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of bleeding1

1175–1225; Middle English (noun and adj.); bleed, -ing 1, -ing 2

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Example Sentences

The NFL was in a solid bargaining position, coming off a season with strong viewership that made its games even more valuable to TV networks trying to stem the bleeding in their linear TV businesses while standing up their streaming operations.

From Digiday

Loeffler was appointed largely to stem the bleeding of suburban women from the Georgia Republican party, the logic being that a Republican woman candidate would appeal to these women.

From Vox

When patients arrived suffering from internal bleeding, the only option for finding where the bleeding came from was running them through a CAT scanner.

From Fortune

Generally speaking, you can only live 3 minutes without air or if you have massive bleeding.

Striking the right balance between clotting and bleeding is something the body itself does regularly, and not just after an injury.

Ground glass is put in food to cause internal bleeding, and nicotine concentrated by boiling can cause a heart attack.

But in another world, Beth stabs Dawn and she is bleeding and none of those other cops are helping her get to a doctor.

Even President Obama, bleeding popularity and under attack from the Left and the Right, blames the media.

No wonder criminal-justice reform is no longer the sole concern of balladeers and bleeding hearts.

The virus causes massive bleeding and spreads itself through contact with the blood.

He had perhaps placed in her hand the weapon that should hasten his own defeat, stretch him bleeding on the sand.

Time and time again did the enemy charge upon the guns, only to be flung back, bleeding and torn.

When bleeding piles are absent, blood-streaks upon such a stool point to carcinoma.

Joseph's brain emptied, fortunately; a man would not want to know that he was tacked to a chair, bleeding to death.

Down crashed the chair, and down went Marius, stunned and bleeding, under its terrific blow.

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