bleeding
IPA: bɫˈidɪŋ
noun
- The flow or loss of blood from a damaged blood vessel.
- (medicine, historical) Bloodletting.
- (figurative) Sapping; depletion; draining; weakening.
adjective
- Losing blood
- (UK, slang, intensifier) extreme, outright; bloody, blasted.
adverb
- (Britain, slang) used as an intensifier: Extremely.
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Examples of "bleeding" in Sentences
- The car is bleeding antifreeze, Ma.
- He is hoping to stanch the bleeding.
- The liver is packed to stop the bleeding.
- The aim is to reduce the internal bleeding.
- Cutbacks and layoffs failed to halt the bleeding.
- One of the eyes of the deity was profusely bleeding.
- Michaels was bleeding for the remainder of the match.
- In the fracas, Adrienne was shot and is bleeding badly.
- But surely this belongs in the department of the bleeding obvious.
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