bleeding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbliːdɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːdɪŋ
homophone: bleating (with /t/-flapping)
Forms: form: bleedings
Etymology: By surface analysis, bleed + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Internal bleeding is often difficult to detect and can lead to death in a short time.
text: An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic […] real kidneys[…]. But they are nothing like as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time.
ref: 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):
glosses: The flow or loss of blood from a damaged blood vessel.
examples: text: Notwithstanding the employ of general and local bleeding, blisters, &c., the patient died on the fourth day after entrance.
ref: 1833, R. J. Bertin, translated by Charles W. Chauncy, Treatise on the Diseases of the Heart, and Great Vessels, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blnachard, page 24:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Bloodletting.
examples: text: the bleeding of the budget
text: the bleeding of the treasury
glosses: Depletion of a given resource; draining, sapping, weakening.
synonyms: word: Aunt Flo
word: Aunt Frieda
word: Aunt Rose
word: blob
word: blood sports
word: Bloody Mary
word: blowjob week
word: breaching the beaver dam
word: catamenia
word: caught short
word: Charlie
word: closed for maintenance
word: come crook
word: country cousin
word: crimson tide
word: crimson wave
word: curse
word: curse of Eve
word: curse of Tom
word: dropping clots
word: entertaining the general
word: fallen to the Communists
word: fall off the roof
word: flowers
word: flashing the red flag
word: flying baker
word: flying the red flag
word: friend
word: grandma George
word: granny
word: granny grunts
word: have the painters in
word: have one's moons
word: have the rag on
word: high tide
word: holy week
word: illness
word: in the red tent
word: Jennie
word: lady problems
word: lady time
word: little sister
word: menstruation
word: menstrual period
word: menstruation period
word: Monica
word: monthlies
word: monthly bill
word: monthly friend
word: monthly period
word: monthly visitor
word: mooncup time
word: moontime
word: mother nature
word: off games
word: old faithful
word: on
word: on a streak
word: OTB
word: on the blob
word: on the cloth
word: on the rag
word: out of order
word: paddling in scarlet waters
word: period
word: poorliness
word: ragging
word: red-headed aunt
word: red-letter day
word: red sails in the sunset
word: riding the cotton pony
word: riding the red river
word: Rita Red Pants
word: shark week
word: so
word: so-so
word: squiffy
word: surfing the crimson tide
word: surfing the crimson wave
word: surrendering to the red army
word: the captain is home
word: the cardinal is home
word: the flag is out
word: the flag is up
word: the Reds are playing at home
word: time for an oil change
word: time of the month
word: Tom
word: Tommy
word: up on blocks
word: woman's week
glosses: Menstruation.
Derived terms: antibleeding
bleeding time
breakthrough bleeding
free-bleeding
implantation bleeding
love-lies-bleeding
microbleeding
nosebleeding
reflex bleeding
stop the bleeding
Related terms: bleeder
bleedingly
blood
bloody