Definitions for bleeding

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bleeding bleed·ing

Spelling: [blee-ding]

IPA: /ˈbli dɪŋ/

Bleeding is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 232 anagrams from letters in bleeding (bdeegiln).

Definitions for bleeding

noun

1. the act, fact, or process of losing blood or having blood flow.
2. the act or process of drawing blood from a person, especially surgically; bloodletting.
3. the extension of color beyond an edge or border, especially so as to combine with a contiguous color or to affect an adjacent area.
4. Printing. a sheet or page margin trimmed so as to mutilate the text or illustration. a part thus trimmed off.
5. Medicine/Medical. an instance of bleeding; hemorrhage:

Idioms

1. bleed white. white (def 41).

adverb

1. British Slang. (used as an intensifier):

adjective

1. sending forth blood:
2. feeling, expressing, or characterized by extreme or excessive anguish and compassion.
3. British Slang. (used as an intensifier):
4. Printing. characterized by bleeding:

Verb phrases

1. bleed off, to draw or extract:

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to lose blood, especially surgically:
2. to lose or emit (blood or sap).
3. to drain or draw sap, water, electricity, etc., from (something):
4. to remove trapped air from (as an automotive brake system) by opening a bleeder valve.
5. to obtain an excessive amount from; extort money from.
6. Printing. to permit (printed illustrations or ornamentation) to run off the page or sheet. to trim the margin of (a book or sheet) so closely as to mutilate the text or illustration.

verb (used without object)

1. to lose blood from the vascular system, either internally into the body or externally through a natural orifice or break in the skin:
2. (of injured tissue, excrescences, etc.) to exude blood:
3. (of a plant) to exude sap, resin, etc., from a wound.
4. (of dye or paint) to run or become diffused:
5. (of a liquid) to ooze or flow out.
6. to feel pity, sorrow, or anguish:
7. to suffer wounds or death, as in battle:
8. (of a broadcast signal) to interfere with another signal:
9. Printing. (of printed matter) to run off the edges of a page, either by design or through mutilation caused by too close trimming.
10. Slang. to pay out money, as when overcharged or threatened with extortion.
11. Metallurgy. (of a cooling ingot or casting) to have molten metal force its way through the solidified exterior because of internal gas pressure.

Origin of bleeding

1175-1225; Middle English (noun and adj.); see bleed, -ing¹, -ing²

Examples for bleeding

But in another world, Beth stabs Dawn and she is bleeding and none of those other cops are helping her get to a doctor.

Even President Obama, bleeding popularity and under attack from the Left and the Right, blames the media.

First, I got a bandage on my wound, to stop the bleeding, and then I had an opportunity to look about me.

He found Poindexter on the ground, bleeding from a bullet wound to his chest.

No wonder criminal-justice reform is no longer the sole concern of balladeers and bleeding hearts.

The physical wounds from the attack left her torn and bleeding.

Somehow or other, this was the general misfortune of bleeding Heart Yard.

So he just sat there, quivering, bleeding, battered—but a conqueror.

"I suppose we're all wounded," said Dick as he wiped a bleeding cheek.

They began their perquisitions in bleeding Heart Yard that same forenoon.