Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective & adverb Used as an intensive.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A running or issuing of blood, as from the nose; a hemorrhage; the operation of letting blood, as in surgery.
- noun The drawing of sap from a tree or plant.
- noun In bookbinding, an excessive trimming down of the margins of a book, which cuts into and mutilates the print.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Emitting, or appearing to emit, blood or sap, etc.; also, expressing anguish or compassion.
- noun 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
bleed . - adjective UK, slang (used as an intensifier) extreme, outright.
- adverb UK, slang (used as an intensifier)
Extremely . - noun The
flow orloss ofblood from adamaged blood vessel .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel
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Examples
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Even when I am yet again bleeding from the eyeballs as I write another first draft.
Over the hump! Wheeeeee! karenmiller 2007
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One does not have to be what you call a bleeding heart liberal to understand the dangers of street corner 'justice'.
Slugger O'Toole 2009
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One does not have to be what you call a bleeding heart liberal to understand the dangers of street corner 'justice'.
Slugger O'Toole 2009
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As the unit has been discontinued, it is unlikely that a firmware release would be developed for this unit in relation to the Mac update issue this is what you call bleeding edge I guess. taking a chance on something working when you have no guarantees or support from the manufacturer. sorry, this one is on those who bought the drive knowing well that buffalo didn't actually market to nor actively support Macs / mac users.
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The man Paiko had stepped on was bleeding from a bullet wound.
A Simple Case 2010
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The man Paiko had stepped on was bleeding from a bullet wound.
A Simple Case 2010
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Still, even as he ran to the car, dripping sweat and bleeding from the gash in his forehead, with the river already up to the wheel wells, he realized that the choices he had just made said something about who he was.
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If we see the earth bleeding from the loss of topsoil, biodiversity, or drought and desertification, and if we help reclaim or save what is lost -- for instance, through regeneration of degraded forests -- the planet will help us in our self-healing and indeed survival.
Wangari Maathai: Spiritual Environmentalism: Healing Ourselves by Replenishing the Earth Wangari Maathai 2010
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The second duelist, although less seriously wounded, was bleeding from a gash to his thigh.
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The man Paiko had stepped on was bleeding from a bullet wound.
A Simple Case 2010
yarb commented on the word bleeding
For Hectic fever and for Spitting Blood,
Consumption on the lungs et cetera -
bleeding is serviceable...
- Peter Reading, Receipt (1793), from Nothing for Anyone, 1977
June 26, 2008