bleeding

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbliːdɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -iːdɪŋ
• Hyphenation: bleed‧ing

Verb

bleeding

1. present participle of bleed

Adjective

bleeding (not comparable)

1. Losing blood
2. (Britain, slang, intensifier) extreme, outright; see also bloody (sense 3).
   • "You are a bleeding liar. Truth is of no interest to you at all." — [1]
   • 2004, DrusillaDax, “Battlefields”, in Sensus Fanfiction Archive‎^[2], retrieved 2014-10-08:

     "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."

Translations

losing blood

• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: xwînberbûn (ku)

• Latin: sanguinans

• French: saignant (fr)
• Mansaka: dogo

Derived terms

• bleeding edge
• bleeding heart

Adverb

bleeding (not comparable)

1. (Britain, 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.

   • 2021 April 7, Christian Wolmar, “Electrification is a given... but comfort matters as well”, in RAIL, number 928, page 47:

     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 - [...].

Noun

bleeding (countable and uncountable, plural bleedings)

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.

   • 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist‎^[3], volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):

     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. (medicine, historical) Bloodletting.
   • 1833, R. J. Bertin, Charles W. Chauncy, transl., Treatise on the Diseases of the Heart, and Great Vessels, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blnachard, page 24:

     Notwithstanding the employ of general and local bleeding, blisters, &c., the patient died on the fourth day after entrance.

Translations

the flow or loss of blood from a damaged blood vessel

• Arabic: نَزِيف‎ m (nazīf)
• Armenian: արյունահոսություն (hy) (aryunahosutʿyun)
• Bulgarian: кръвотечение (bg) n (krǎvotečenie), кръвоизлив (bg) m (krǎvoizliv)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 出血 (zh) (chūxuè, chūxiě) (chūxiě is more colloquial), 滲色 (zh), 渗色 (zh) (shènsè)

• Czech: krvácení (cs) n
• Dutch: bloeding (nl) f
• Finnish: verenvuoto (fi)
• French: saignement (fr), hémorragie (fr)
• German: Blutung (de) f
• Greek: αιμορραγία (el) f (aimorragía)
• Hebrew: דימום‎ (he) m (dimum)

• Japanese: 出血 (ja) (しゅっけつ, shukketsu)
• Korean: 출혈 (chulhyeol) (出血)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: xwînçûn

• Malay: pendarahan
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: blødning m or f

  Nynorsk: bløding f

• Polish: krwawienie (pl) n
• Portuguese: sangramento (pt), hemorragia (pt)
• Russian: кровотече́ние (ru) n (krovotečénije)
• Spanish: sangrado (es) m, hemorragia (es) f
• Swedish: blödning (sv) c
• Turkish: kanama (tr)
• Vietnamese: sự chảy máu (vi)

Related terms

• bleeder
• bleedingly
• blood
• bloody