Definition of "bleeding" in English

verb

1. present participle and gerund of bleed

adjective

1. Losing blood.

2. (UK, slang, intensifier) extreme, outright; bloody, blasted.

   • You are a bleeding liar. Truth is of no interest to you at all.

adverb

1. (British, slang) used as an intensifier: Extremely.

   • His car's motor is bleeding smoking down the motorway.
   • It turns out he was too bleeding cheap to ever drain the oil.

noun

1. 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.

2. (medicine, historical) Bloodletting.

3. (figurative) Depletion of a given resource; draining, sapping, weakening.

   • the bleeding of the budget
   • the bleeding of the treasury

4. (euphemistic, colloquial) Menstruation.