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bleeding
[ blee-ding ]
noun
- the act, fact, or process of losing blood or having blood flow.
- the act or process of drawing blood from a person, especially surgically; bloodletting.
- 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
- sending forth blood:
a bleeding sore.
- feeling, expressing, or characterized by extreme or excessive anguish and compassion.
- British Slang. (used as an intensifier):
bleeding fool.
adverb
- British Slang. (used as an intensifier):
a bleeding silly idea.
bleeding
/ ˈːɪŋ /
adjective
- (intensifier)
a bleeding fool
it's bleeding beautiful
Other Word Forms
- ԴDz·iԲ adjective noun
- ܲ·iԲ adjective
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
“The city was already draped in swastikas. Bright red flags hanging, flapping, lolling like dead tongues from every corner shop … Berlin was bleeding from the inside out.”
Footage shows Allans, the student journalist, holding up a Kenyan flag as he tried to reach Chege and another casualty bleeding out after the gunfire.
Fisher: Another initial idea for Scary Patty was that she’d start bleeding all over, with patches of blood appearing on her dress.
The injured man was seen in the lift bleeding profusely from his arm and neighbours who saw him outside the block of flats contacted emergency services.
But the WHO warns that about 15% of people face a second, more serious phase involving high fever, jaundice, bleeding and deteriorating kidney function.
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