bleeding

adj, adv, noun — 9 senses

bleeding

adj

/ˈbliːdɪŋ/

Etymology By surface analysis, bleed + -ing.

1

Losing blood.

  • The burnt and bleeding man staggered to his feet, dazed and unbelieving, and asked the startled townspeople who came running whether his fireman and guard were safe. He was kept away from the smouldering crater where his engine had been, and taken to hospital.2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43:
2

UK, Emphatic, Intensifier, Slang extreme, outright; bloody, blasted.

  • You are a bleeding liar. Truth is of no interest to you at all.1999, Paul Milne, “Why Kari Kauffman Is A Bald Faced Liar” in comp.software.year-2000
  • "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."2004, DrusillaDax, “Battlefields”, in Sensus Fanfiction Archive, retrieved 08 Oct 2014:
Derived terms
bleeding edge, bleeding-edge, bleeding-heart, bleeding heart, bleeding heck, bleeding hell, bleeding Nora, bleeding oak crust, bleeding sickness, bleeding stump, bleeding tooth fungus, nonbleeding, unbleeding

bleeding

adv

Etymology By surface analysis, bleed + -ing.

1

UK, 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.
1 more example
  • It does highlight some of the difficulties, but does not dare state the bleeding obvious, which is that neither are likely to play a major part in delivering a decarbonised agenda on the railways – […].2021 April 7, Christian Wolmar, “Electrification is a given... but comfort matters as well”, in RAIL, number 928, page 47:

bleeding

noun

Etymology By surface analysis, bleed + -ing.

1

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.
  • 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.2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):
2

Medicine, Sciences Historical Bloodletting.

  • Notwithstanding the employ of general and local bleeding, blisters, &c., the patient died on the fourth day after entrance.1833, R. J. Bertin, translated by Charles W. Chauncy, Treatise on the Diseases of the Heart, and Great Vessels, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blnachard, page 24:
3

Figuratively Depletion of a given resource; draining, sapping, weakening.

  • the bleeding of the budget
  • the bleeding of the treasury
4

Colloquial, Euphemistic Menstruation.

  • Owing to the prudery of Victorian times, people hardly dared talk about bleeding at all — even privately, let alone publicly.
5

Business, Manufacturing, Media, Printing, Publishing The migration of impressions (dents), ink, or both through the substrate (paper or otherwise).

6

Business, Manufacturing, Media, Printing, Publishing Printing past the edge of the leaf (past the trim).

Derived terms
antibleeding, bleeding time, breakthrough bleeding, free-bleeding, free bleeding, implantation bleeding, love-lies-bleeding, microbleeding, nosebleeding, reflex bleeding, stop the bleeding
Related terms
bleeder, bleedingly, blood, bloody

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