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

Other Word Forms

• nonbleeding adjective
• unbleeding adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of bleeding¹

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

Example Sentences

It causes a haemorrhagic disease - uncontrolled bleeding that can be fatal within 24 hours.

From BBC

An eyewitness called Gareth, who was driving his delivery van near the scene, told the BBC he saw a man "bleeding out on the floor".

From BBC

Terence Newman, prosecuting, said Sharwarq knocked a fellow migrant to the floor in a one-punch attack at the hotel's canteen, which left him bleeding.

From BBC

If undiagnosed, the fallopian tube can burst, leading to life-threatening internal bleeding.

From BBC

Both lines were being blown off the ball, and the secondary was struggling to stop the bleeding.

From Los Angeles Times

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