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bleeding

[ blee-ding ]

noun

  1. the act, fact, or process of losing blood or having blood flow.
  2. the act or process of drawing blood from a person, especially surgically; bloodletting.
  3. 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

  1. sending forth blood:

    a bleeding sore.

  2. feeling, expressing, or characterized by extreme or excessive anguish and compassion.
  3. British Slang. (used as an intensifier):

    bleeding fool.

adverb

  1. British Slang. (used as an intensifier):

    a bleeding silly idea.

bleeding

/ ˈːɪŋ /

adjective

  1. (intensifier)

    a bleeding fool

    it's bleeding beautiful

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • ԴDz·iԲ adjective noun
  • ܲ·iԲ adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of bleeding1

1175–1225; Middle English (noun and adj.); bleed, -ing 1, -ing 2
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“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.”

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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.

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Fisher: Another initial idea for Scary Patty was that she’d start bleeding all over, with patches of blood appearing on her dress.

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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.

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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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