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Webster 1913 Edition
Bleeding
Bleed′ing
,Adj.
Emitting, or appearing to emit, blood or sap, etc.; also, expressing anguish or compassion.
Bleed′ing
,Noun.
A running or issuing of blood, as from the nose or a wound; a hemorrhage; the operation of letting blood, as in surgery; a drawing or running of sap from a tree or plant.
Webster 1828 Edition
Bleeding
BLEE'DING
,ppr.
BLEE'DING
,Noun.
Definition 2024
bleeding
bleeding
English
Verb
bleeding
- present participle of bleed
Derived terms
Adjective
bleeding (not comparable)
- Losing blood
- (Britain, slang) (used as an intensifier) extreme, outright; see also bloody (sense 3).
Adverb
bleeding (not comparable)
- (Britain, slang) (used as an intensifier) Extremely.
- His car's motor is bleeding smoking down the motorway.
- It turns out he was too bleeding cheap to ever drain the oil.
Noun
bleeding (countable and uncountable, plural bleedings)
- The flow or loss of blood from a damaged blood vessel.
- 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):
- An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic […] real kidneys […] . But they are nothing like as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time.
- Internal bleeding is often difficult to detect and can lead to death in a short time.
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- (medicine, historical) bloodletting
Translations
the flow or loss of blood from a damaged blood vessel
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