English Online Dictionary. What means bleeding? What does bleeding mean?
English
Etymology
By surface analysis, bleed + -ing.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbliːdɪŋ/
- Rhymes: -iːdɪŋ
- Homophone: bleating (with /t/-flapping)
- Hyphenation: bleed‧ing
Verb
bleeding
- present participle and gerund of bleed
Adjective
bleeding (not comparable)
- Losing blood.
- (UK, slang, intensifier) extreme, outright; bloody, blasted.
- 1999, Paul Milne, “Why Kari Kauffman Is A Bald Faced Liar” in comp.software.year-2000:
- You are a bleeding liar. Truth is of no interest to you at all.
- 1999, Paul Milne, “Why Kari Kauffman Is A Bald Faced Liar” in comp.software.year-2000:
Derived terms
Translations
Adverb
bleeding (not comparable)
- (British, slang) used as an intensifier: Extremely.
Noun
bleeding (countable and uncountable, plural bleedings)
- The flow or loss of blood from a damaged blood vessel.
- (medicine, historical) Bloodletting.
- (figurative) Depletion of a given resource; draining, sapping, weakening.
- (euphemistic, colloquial) Menstruation.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:menstruation
Derived terms
Translations
Related terms
- bleeder
- bleedingly
- blood
- bloody
References
- Ragosta, Sachiko, Obedin-Maliver, Juno, Fix, Laura, Stoeffler, Ari, Hastings, Jen, Capriotti, Matthew R., Flentje, Annesa, Lubensky, Micah E., Lunn, Mitchell R., Moseson, Heidi (2021 September 1) “From 'Shark-Week' to 'Mangina': An Analysis of Words Used by People of Marginalized Sexual Orientations and/or Gender Identities to Replace Common Sexual and Reproductive Health Terms”, in Health Equity, volume 5, number 1, Mary Ann Liebert, →DOI, page 712 of 707–717