bleeding
adjective
bleed·ing ˈblē-diŋ 
-dᵊn
chiefly British, informal + sometimes offensive
—used like bloody or damned as a generalized intensive
One fan said: "What the bleeding hell happened???"
Charlotte TuttonI said, "Shirley, your house is on fire!" She looked at me and said, "Michael, that's the pool. That's steam." I was such a bleeding idiot, such a putz. Michael Caine
Charlotte TuttonI said, "Shirley, your house is on fire!" She looked at me and said, "Michael, that's the pool. That's steam." I was such a bleeding idiot, such a putz. Michael Caine
Word History
First Known Use
1839, in the meaning defined above
Phrases Containing bleeding
Medical Definition
bleeding
noun
bleed·ing -iŋ
: an act, instance, or result of being bled or the process by which something is bled: as
a
: the escape of blood from vessels : hemorrhage
b
: the operation of bleeding a person medically : phlebotomy
bleeding 1 of 2
adjective
as in cramping
Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- cramping
- burning
- itching
- festering
- chafing
- swollen
- pinching
- smarting
- stinging
- pricking
- prickling
- damaging
- nagging
- inflamed
- raw
- hurting
- detrimental
- harmful
- tender
- agonizing
- pernicious
- aching
- injurious
- deleterious
- noxious
- hurtful
- painful
- sore
- excruciating
- severe
- threatening
- wounding
- enflamed
- torturous
- achy
- grievous
- afflictive
- nasty
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- healing
- helping
- painless
- remedial
- indolent
- curative
bleeding
2 of 2verb
1
as in grieving
to feel deep sadness or mental pain her heart bleeds for the homeless people she sees on her way to work Synonyms & Similar Words
- grieving
- aching
- mourning
- sighing
- suffering
- crying
- agonizing
- sobbing
- weeping
- sorrowing
- hurting
- anguishing
- smarting
- groaning
- moaning
- tormenting
- eating one's heart out
- tearing one's hair
- torturing
- blubbering
- howling
- bewailing
- bawling
- yammering
- wailing
- yowling
- lamenting
- racking
- languishing
- deploring
- ruing
- keening
- regretting
- bemoaning
- pining (away)
- longing (for)
- taking on
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- laughing
- rejoicing
- exulting
- cheering
- ravishing
- beaming
- glorying
- triumphing
- delighting
- sympathizing
- crowing
- consoling
- reassuring
- comforting
- soothing
- assuring
- cheering
- joying
- solacing
- commiserating
2
as in dripping
to flow forth slowly through small openings pitch was bleeding from cuts in the tree bark Synonyms & Similar Words
- dripping
- weeping
- seeping
- oozing
- flowing
- sweating
- transuding
- exuding
- percolating
- trickling
- straining
- dribbling
- emitting
- emanating
- giving off
- springing
- discharging
- venting
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- pouring
- flooding
- surging
- gushing
- streaming
3
as in draining
to remove (liquid) gradually or completely bleed water from the radiators Synonyms & Similar Words
- draining
- pumping
- sucking
- tapping
- emptying
- siphoning
- cleaning
- flushing
- syphoning
- evacuating
- drafting
- milking
- drawing (off)
- purging
- exhausting
- clearing
- depleting
- voiding
- vacuating
- effusing
- vacating
- decanting
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- filling
- wetting
- washing
- soaking
- watering
- drenching
- drowning
- bathing
- flooding
- overflowing
- dousing
- inundating
- sousing
- submerging
- swamping
- deluging
- dowsing
4
as in squeezing
to rob by the use of trickery or threats the confidence men coldheartedly bled the elderly couple of their life savings Synonyms & Similar Words
- squeezing
- stinging
- cheating
- beating
- plucking
- sticking
- hustling
- screwing
- doing
- fleecing
- fiddling
- reaming
- victimizing
- deceiving
- mulcting
- gaffing
- swindling
- skinning
- defrauding
- shortchanging
- shaking down
- hosing
- suckering
- ripping off
- flimflamming
- exploiting
- rooking
- bilking
- thimblerigging
- shorting
- chiseling
- diddling
- stiffing
- chousing
- wrenching
- gouging
- betraying
- euchring
- tricking
- conning
- nobbling
- chiselling
- fooling
- clipping
- cozening
- soaking
- taking for a ride
- skunking
- doing in
- taking to the cleaners
- extorting
- wringing
- milking
- nicking
- selling a bill of goods to
- overcharging
- wresting
- bitching
- gulling
- duping
- bamboozling
- double-crossing
- roping (in)
- fast-talking
- put the record straight
- put the screws on
- put the screws on someone or something
- put the screws on/to (someone or something)
- put the screws to
- put the screws to someone or something
- put the skids under
- put the spotlight on
- put the thumbscrews on
- put the washing out
- put the whammy on someone
- put the wind up
- put the wind up (someone)
- put the wind up someone
- put the word out
- put the/a hurt on
- put their heads together
- put their/our/your heads together
- put things to rights
- put through
- put through her paces
- put through his paces
- put through its paces
- put through the wringer
- put to bed