bleeding

Pluralbleedings (some meanings)

1. 1
   adjective

   Losing blood from a cut, wound, or injury.

   The nurse cleaned the bleeding scrape on the boy's elbow.

   A bleeding lip made it hard for him to eat dinner.

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2. 2
   noununcountable

   The flow of blood out of the body from a cut or damaged blood vessel.

   Doctors worked fast to stop the bleeding after the crash.

   A deep cut on her leg caused a lot of bleeding.

   Similarhemorrhage

3. 3
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of bleed, used for blood that is flowing now or for the flow itself.

   The cut on his finger was still bleeding after an hour.

   She pressed a clean cloth on the wound to stop the bleeding.

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4. 4
   adjectiveslangemphaticintensifierUK

   Used before a noun to show anger or annoyance, like a milder form of the word 'damn'.

   Where's my bleeding wallet got to now?

   That bleeding dog next door won't stop barking.

   Similarbloody, flipping, blooming, ruddy, damned

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5. 5
   adverbslangBritish

   Very or extremely, used in casual British speech to make another word stronger.

   It's bleeding cold out here this morning!

   That match was bleeding brilliant from start to finish.

   Similarbloody, flipping, damned

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6. 6
   nouncolloquialeuphemisticuncountable

   An everyday word for a woman's monthly period.

   She often gets cramps when her bleeding starts each month.

   A warm pad on her belly eased the pain during her bleeding.

   Similarperiod, menstruation, monthlies, curse

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7. 7
   nounfigurativelyusually singular

   A slow loss of money, strength, or other things over time.

   Like air slowly leaking from a tire until it goes flat.

   The long lawsuit caused a steady bleeding of the company's savings.

   Years of fighting led to a slow bleeding of the country's resources.

   Similardrain, loss, outflow, erosion, depletion

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8. 8
   nounhistoricaluncountable

   The old medical practice of taking blood from a sick person to try to cure illness.

   The doctor recommended bleeding to bring down the patient's fever.

   Notwithstanding the employ of general and local bleeding, blisters, &c., the patient died on the fourth day after entrance.

   1833, R. J. Bertin, Treatise on the Diseases of the HeartHere, bleeding means a doctor drawing blood from a patient to treat illness.

   Similarbloodletting, phlebotomy

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