bleeding /ˈbliːdɪŋ/noun 6adjective 2adverb 1forms 1phrases 2 noun6 •the loss of blood through a cut or other damage to the bodyInternal bleeding is often difficult to detect and can lead to death in a short time. •(informal, euphemistic) Menstruation.Owing to the prudery of Victorian times, people hardly dared talk about bleeding at all — even privately, let alone publicly. •(figurative) Depletion of a given resource; draining, sapping, weakening. •(historical) Bloodletting.Notwithstanding the employ of general and local bleeding, blisters, &c., the patient died on the fourth day after entrance. — 1833 •The migration of impressions (dents), ink, or both through the substrate (paper or otherwise). •Printing past the edge of the leaf (past the trim). adjective2 •Losing blood. •(UK, slang) extreme, outright; bloody, blasted.You are a bleeding liar. Truth is of no interest to you at all. — 1999 adverb1 •(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. formsbleedings Phrases with bleeding bleeding edgeSomething too new and untested to be reliable or to have any assurance of safety; the figurative place where such things exist. stop the bleedingTo recover by interrupting a string of losses, disappointments, etc.
