- present participle of bleed.
bleeding
Americannoun
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the act, fact, or process of losing blood or having blood flow.
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the act or process of drawing blood from a person, especially surgically; bloodletting.
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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
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sending forth blood.
a bleeding sore.
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feeling, expressing, or characterized by extreme or excessive anguish and compassion.
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British Slang. (used as an intensifier).
bleeding fool.
adverb
adjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of bleeding
1175–1225; Middle English (noun and adj.); see bleed, -ing 1, -ing 2
Example Sentences
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Researchers found no comparable increases in intracerebral hemorrhage, which involves bleeding directly into the brain, or subarachnoid hemorrhage, which occurs when bleeding develops in the space surrounding the brain.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
It might need backer Nvidia to stem the bleeding.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
“It was, initially, to stop the bleeding at least a little bit,” Ortiz Jr. said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
The mistakes risked bleeding into budgets for years to come.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
By 1860, the practice of bleeding a patient is the last gasp of a treatment that goes back to the "bodily humors" theory of the ancient Greeks.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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