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adjective

Bleeding adj. Emitting, or appearing to emit, blood or sap, etc.; also, expressing anguish or compassion.

verb

Bleed v. t. (past & past part. bled; pres. part. bleeding)

To let blood from; to take or draw blood from, as by opening a vein.

To lose, as blood; to emit or let drop, as sap. "A decaying pine of stately size, bleeding amber."

To draw money from (one); to induce to pay; as, they bled him freely for this fund. (Colloq.)

Bleed v. i. (past & past part. bled; pres. part. bleeding)

To emit blood; to lose blood; to run with blood, by whatever means; as, the arm bleeds; the wound bled freely; to bleed at the nose.

To withdraw blood from the body; to let blood; as, Dr. A. bleeds in fevers.

To lose or shed one's blood, as in case of a violent death or severe wounds; to die by violence. "Caesar must bleed." "The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day."

To issue forth, or drop, as blood from an incision. "For me the balm shall bleed."

To lose sap, gum, or juice; as, a tree or a vine bleeds when tapped or wounded.

To pay or lose money; to have money drawn or extorted; as, to bleed freely for a cause. (Colloq.)

To make the heart bleed, to cause extreme pain, as from sympathy or pity.

noun

Bleeding n. A running or issuing of blood, as from the nose or a wound; a hemorrhage; the operation of letting blood, as in surgery; a drawing or running of sap from a tree or plant.

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"Bleeding" Quotes from Famous Books

... there were still swelling and pain; there was considerable bleeding from the wound, so that I could not ...

— An Essay on the Application of the Lunar Caustic in the Cure of Certain Wounds and Ulcers • John Higginbottom

... fusillade which had destroyed the Frenchmen, and, dangling helplessly at my side, gave me exquisite pain, as I stumbled along over the uneven and slippery road. The injury was plainly perceptible, yet no one offered to bind up the bleeding limb, and of course it was quite impossible for me to do so myself. I might have requested one of my captors to perform the service for me, but a scrutiny of their countenances afforded me so little encouragement that I decided to suffer on, rather than place ...

— Under the Meteor Flag - Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War • Harry Collingwood

... lashings, plunging into the incessant head seas of the desolate ocean, fighting it out tack for tack, reefing topsails and shaking them out again, the vigilant commanders going below only to change their clothes, the exhausted seamen stubbornly, heroically handling with frozen, bleeding fingers the icy sheets and canvas. A fortnight of this inferno and the Sea Witch and the Raven gained the Pacific, still within sight of each other, and the Typhoon only one day behind. Then they swept northward, blown by the booming tradewinds, ...

— The Old Merchant Marine - A Chronicle of American Ships and Sailors, Volume 36 in - the Chronicles Of America Series • Ralph D. Paine

... do. They've called me every name on earth—and the same with you, too, Crailey—because I'm an Abolitionist, but now, whether the country has sinned or not, a good many thousand men have got to do the bleeding for her, and I want to be one of them. That's the one thing that is ...

— The Two Vanrevels • Booth Tarkington

... separated from Asia by the Suez Canal. The Pacific Railway through North America had been completed. Prussia had taken Schleswig-Holstein from Denmark, the German armies were besieging Paris, and Napoleon the Third was a prisoner. France was bleeding from wounds which would never be healed. What news for a man who had just come out of ...

— From Pole to Pole - A Book for Young People • Sven Anders Hedin

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