bleeding

== 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. ==== 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 (1 September 2021), “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