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present participle and gerund of bleed examples
not comparable
Losing blood quotations examples
The burnt and bleeding man staggered to his feet, dazed and unbelieving, and asked the startled townspeople who came running whether his fireman and guard were safe. He was kept away from the smouldering crater where his engine had been, and taken to hospital.
2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43
(UK, slang, intensifier) extreme, outright; bloody, blasted. quotations
"You are a bleeding idiot sometimes, but I love you and", Harry hands him the first gift Severus ever gave him and says, "One hundred and sixteen."
2004, DrusillaDax, “Battlefields”, in Sensus Fanfiction Archive, retrieved 2014-10-08
(Britain, slang) used as an intensifier: Extremely. quotations
It does highlight some of the difficulties, but does not dare state the bleeding obvious, which is that neither are likely to play a major part in delivering a decarbonised agenda on the railways - [...].
2021 April 7, Christian Wolmar, “Electrification is a given... but comfort matters as well”, in RAIL, number 928, page 47
countable and uncountable, plural bleedings
The flow or loss of blood from a damaged blood vessel. quotations examples
An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic […] real kidneys […]. But they are nothing like as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time.
2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly)
(medicine, historical) Bloodletting. quotations
Notwithstanding the employ of general and local bleeding, blisters, &c., the patient died on the fourth day after entrance.
1833, R. J. Bertin, translated by Charles W. Chauncy, Treatise on the Diseases of the Heart, and Great Vessels, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blnachard, page 24