bleeding
English
Pronunciation
Verb
bleeding
Adjective
bleeding (not comparable)
- Losing blood
- (UK, slang) (used as an 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
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Derived terms
Adverb
bleeding (not comparable)
- (British, 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
bleeding (countable and uncountable, plural bleedings)
- 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.
- (medicine, historical) bloodletting
Translations
the flow or loss of blood from a damaged blood vessel
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