English

Verb

bleeding

1. present participle of bleed

Derived terms

• bleeding heart

Adjective

bleeding ‎(not comparable)

1. Losing blood
2. (Britain, slang) (used as an intensifier) extreme, outright; see also bloody (sense 3).
   • "You are a bleeding liar. Truth is of no interest to you at all." —
   • 2004, DrusillaDax, “Battlefields”, in Sensus Fanfiction Archive, retrieved 2014-10-08:

     "You are a bleeding idiot sometimes, but I love you and", Harry hands him the first gift Severus ever gave him and says, "One hundred and sixteen."

Adverb

bleeding ‎(not comparable)

1. (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)

1. 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.‎

2. (medicine, historical) bloodletting

Translations

Related terms

• bleeder
• bleedingly
• blood
• bloody