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bleeding.

Losing blood.

8 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/ˈbliːdɪŋ/
  1. Losing blood.

    not-comparable
  2. extreme, outright; bloody, blasted.

    UK · emphatic · intensifier · not-comparable · slang
Where this word comes from

By surface analysis, bleed + -ing.

adv/ˈbliːdɪŋ/
  1. used as an intensifier: Extremely.

    UK · not-comparable · slang
    His car's motor is bleeding smoking down the motorway.
    It turns out he was too bleeding cheap to ever drain the oil.
Where this word comes from

By surface analysis, bleed + -ing.

noun/ˈbliːdɪŋ/
  1. The flow or loss of blood from a damaged blood vessel.

    countable · uncountable
    Internal bleeding is often difficult to detect and can lead to death in a short time.
  2. Bloodletting.

    countable · historical · uncountable
  3. Depletion of a given resource; draining, sapping, weakening.

    countable · figuratively · uncountable
    the bleeding of the budget
    the bleeding of the treasury
  4. Menstruation.

    colloquial · countable · euphemistic · uncountable
    Owing to the prudery of Victorian times, people hardly dared talk about bleeding at all — even privately, let alone publicly.
  5. The migration of impressions (dents), ink, or both through the substrate (paper or otherwise).

    countable · uncountable
  6. Printing past the edge of the leaf (past the trim).

    countable · uncountable
Where this word comes from

By surface analysis, bleed + -ing.

verb/ˈbliːdɪŋ/
  1. present participle and gerund of bleed

    form-of · gerund · participle · present
Where this word comes from

By surface analysis, bleed + -ing.

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