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

The company has been bleeding cash with free cash flow in negative territory in all but three of its last 14 quarters.

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Her three children were born at Glenn Medical, and Wampler herself was a patient there for two months last year, when she was stricken with pneumonia and internal bleeding.

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It did so without causing major bleeding, a side effect of other blood thinning medications, Bayer said.

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After passing through mouse models with colitis, the sensors detected gastrointestinal bleeding within minutes.

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She ran to a portable toilet and grabbed a handful of paper towels to stanch the bleeding.

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