bleeding
About 14.11 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb present participle and gerund of bleed
- adjective Losing blood.
- adjective extreme, outright; bloody, blasted.
- adverb used as an intensifier: Extremely.
His car's motor is bleeding smoking down the motorway.
- noun The flow or loss of blood from a damaged blood vessel.
Internal bleeding is often difficult to detect and can lead to death in a short time.
- noun Bloodletting.
- noun Depletion of a given resource; draining, sapping, weakening.
the bleeding of the budget
- noun Menstruation.
Owing to the prudery of Victorian times, people hardly dared talk about bleeding at all — even privately, let alone publicly.
Similar words
hemorrhage haemorrhage bloody bleeder hemorrhagic haemorrhaging bloodletting purge throat bloodstream
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