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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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... God sends the Prophet of Redemption in strange guise,' the physician said. 'Listen! Maimon was pursued by a drunken mob, ignorant he was a deserter from our camp. When he found how I had saved him and dressed his bleeding face, when he saw the spread Passover table, his child-soul came back to him, and in a burst of tears he confessed the diabolical plot against our community, hatched through his instrumentality by some desperate debtors; how, having raised the cry of a lost child, they were to have its ...

— Ghetto Comedies • Israel Zangwill

... o'clock he went across the yard to the printing office with a little bag of money. The younger apprentice was near the door scrubbing type with potash to cleanse it. The backs of his hands were horribly raw and bleeding with chaps, due to the frequent necessity of washing them in order to serve the machines, and the impossibility of drying them properly. Still, winter was ending now, and he only worked eleven hours ...

— Clayhanger • Arnold Bennett

... tore at the clasping bonds, trying in every way to free herself. With feet and hands she strove to loosen the tough, wiry vines, kicking and trampling with her restless feet, beating and bending with her little hands, until they were torn and bleeding, and the tormenting vines seemed only to hold her with a firmer grasp, as if to prove ...

— Dorothy Dainty at the Mountains • Amy Brooks

... done it. Dr. Charles would not have let them do it if he had been there. They should have waited. They might have known the choking and the retching would kill him. Catty ought to have known. Somewhere behind his eyes his life was leaking away through the torn net of the blood vessels, bleeding away over his brain, under his hair, ...

— Mary Olivier: A Life • May Sinclair

... the trees, and pushed her way through bushes and brambles to the boundary of the Priory grounds. It was a lofty wall, at least nine feet in height, with a coping which bristled with jagged pieces of glass. Kate walked along the base Of it, her fair skin all torn and bleeding with scratches from the briars, until she satisfied herself that there was no break in it. There was one small wooden door on the side which was skirted by the railway line, but it was locked and impassable. The only opening ...

— The Firm of Girdlestone • Arthur Conan Doyle

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