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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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... fighting, route marching, while overhead soars thrumming the watchful airship, Britain's eye. For Britain has a business on hand. Just yonder stretches the misty sea where unsleeping lie Britain's men of war. Beyond the sea bleeding Belgium has bloodsoaked ground crying to Heaven long waiting but soon at length to hear. And France fiercely, proudly proving her right to live an independent nation. And Germany. Germany! the last word in intellectual ...

— Defenders of Democracy • The Militia of Mercy

... the task again that day; he was too weary to do so. That night he was ill and feverish, and in the morning had an attack of bleeding at the lungs. The landlord sent for the doctor, but the patient was not able to leave in the steamer, which went in the afternoon. The landlord's wife nursed him carefully and kindly, and in a week he began to improve. He had no further ...

— The Coming Wave - The Hidden Treasure of High Rock • Oliver Optic

... Fame should want her Crowne, although she flew As high as yonder Axle tree above And spred in latitude throughout the world. We have subdu'd those men of strange beleefe Which Christians call themselves; a race of people —This must I speake of them—as resolute And full of courage in their bleeding falls As should they tryumph for a Victory. When the last groanes of many thousand mett And like commixed Whirlwindes fill'd our eares. As it from us rais'd not a dust of pitty So did it give no terrour ...

— Old English Plays, Vol. I - A Collection of Old English Plays • Various

... under the Old Elm—or just where it used to be—and took his watch away! And he ran after them, and knocked the largest of the gang down, and took it back again. He wasn't hurt, but we're afraid he's been injured internally; he may be bleeding internally NOW—Oh, do you think he is, Willis? Don't you think we ought to send for a physician?—That, and the cologne I gave him to drink. It's the brandy I poured on his head makes him smell so. And he all so exhausted he couldn't speak, and I didn't know what I was doing, either; but ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... word of Cupid's darts, Of killing eyes, or bleeding hearts; With friendship and esteem possessed, I ne'er ...

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