Bleeding

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈbliːdɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -iːdɪŋ

Verb

1. Present participle of bleed

Derived terms

• bleeding heart

Full definition of bleeding

Adjective

1. (UK, slang) (used as an intensifier) extreme, outright.
• "You are a bleeding liar. Truth is of no interest to you at all." — http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.software.year-2000/msg/ba82c9dd28cde368
• ""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."" — Battlefields, DrusillaDax, chapter 24 http://www.noiresensus.com/bookshelf/harrypotter/battlefields24.html

Adverb

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.

Noun

1. The flow or loss of blood from a damaged blood vessel.
• 2013-06-01, A better waterworks, 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.
2. Internal bleeding is often difficult to detect and can lead to death in a short time.
3. (medicine, historical) bloodletting

Related terms

• bleeder
• bleedingly
• blood
• bloody