bleeding
Losing blood.
Adjective 1 meaning
Losing blood.
Noun 4 meanings
The flow or loss of blood from a damaged blood vessel.
“Internal bleeding is often difficult to detect and can lead to death in a short time.”
Depletion of a given resource; draining, sapping, weakening.
“the bleeding of the budget”
Menstruation.
“Owing to the prudery of Victorian times, people hardly dared talk about bleeding at all — even privately, let alone publicly.”
The migration of impressions (dents), ink, or both through the substrate (paper or otherwise).
Etymology
By surface analysis, bleed + -ing.
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BLEEDING at a glance
BLEEDING has 8 letters and scores 12 points in Scrabble (B 3 + L 1 + E 1 + E 1 + D 2 + I 1 + N 1 + G 2) and 16 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #6,112 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with bleeding
All rhymes- BEING8
- GOING7
- SOMETHING15
- DURING8
- THING9
- DOING7
- HAVING13
- GETTING9
- LOOKING12
- ANYTHING15
- NOTHING11
- EVERYTHING20
One letter away
- BREEDING12
- BLENDING12
- BLEEPING13
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