Word Finder - bleeding

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(of a person or animal) To lose blood through an injured blood vessel.

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If her nose bleeds, try to use ice.

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To let or draw blood from.

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To take large amounts of money from.

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To steadily lose (something vital).

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The company was bleeding talent.

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(of an ink or dye) To spread from the intended location and stain the surrounding cloth or paper.

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Ink traps counteract bleeding.

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To remove air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.

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To bleed on; to make bloody.

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To show one's group loyalty by showing (its associated color) in one's blood.

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He was a devoted Vikings fan: he bled purple.

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To lose sap, gum, or juice.

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A tree or a vine bleeds when tapped or wounded.

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To issue forth, or drop, like blood from an incision.

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(of a phonological rule) To destroy the environment where another phonological rule would have applied.

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Labialization bleeds palatalization.

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The flow or loss of blood from a damaged blood vessel.

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Internal bleeding is often difficult to detect and can lead to death in a short time.

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Bloodletting.

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Losing blood

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(intensifier) extreme, outright; see also bloody (sense 3).

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"You are a bleeding liar. Truth is of no interest to you at all." — http//groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.software.year-2000/msg/ba82c9dd28cde368

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Used as an intensifier: Extremely.

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His car's motor is bleeding smoking down the motorway.

His nose was bleeding profusely.

She did as he said and pressed hard on the arrow wound until the bleeding slowed.

He noticed her bleeding leg and yelled to a medic.

It hurts so badly, and I'm bleeding something awful.

She'd spent the time after her doze bleeding herself.

She had not slept in at least two days and had been bleeding herself when she had time.

The early authorities represent the Stigmata not as bleeding wounds, the holes as it were of the nails, but as fleshy excrescences resembling in form and colour the nails, the head on the palm of the hand, and on the back as it were a nail hammered down.

It may arrest bleeding from the nose, for instance, when injected hypodermically.

This pressure leads to the filling of the vessels of the wood of both root and stem in the early part of the year, before the leaves have expanded, and gives rise to the exudation of fluid known as bleeding when young stems are cut in early spring.

He was an advocate of bleeding, and often carried it to excess.

It is a powerful local haemostatic, but it only checks haemorrhage when brought directly in contact with the bleeding point.

For bleeding haemorrhoids tannic acid suppositories are useful, or tannic acid can be dusted on directly.

In 1653 the weakness and disorder of Poland, which had just emerged, bleeding at every pore, from the savage Cossack war, encouraged Alexius to attempt to recover from her secular rival the old Russian lands.

Next he bore " the pageant of his bleeding heart " to Falkland, where he heard of the birth (8th of December) of his daughter, Mary Stuart.

On the Pratzen Heights, where he had fallen with the flagstaff in his hand, lay Prince Andrew Bolkonski bleeding profusely and unconsciously uttering a gentle, piteous, and childlike moan.

While she looked healthy, she bore blood on her neck that made him feel ill at the thought that Darkyn was bleeding her dry.

At about ten they were covered with blood from head to foot, several elder men bleeding themselves for the purpose.

Winter pruning is effected when the tree is comparatively at rest, and is therefore less liable to " bleeding " or outpouring of sap. Summer pruning or pinching off the tips of such of the younger shoots as are not required for the extension of the tree, when not carried to too great an extent, is preferable to the coarser more reckless style of pruning.

New taxes could only be imposed with extreme caution, while the country was still bleeding from the wounds of a long war.

One with a bleeding head and no cap was being dragged along by two soldiers who supported him under the arms.

Donovan's blood was on her face and T-shirt, and her wrist was bleeding again.

In this case stimulants and strychnine may be given, but they should be avoided until it is certain the bleeding has been properly controlled, as they tend to increase it.

Rostov got out of their way, involuntarily noticed that one of them was bleeding, and galloped on.

In arresting haemorrhage temporarily the chief thing is to press directly on the bleeding part.

If the bleeding point cannot be reached, the pressure should be applied to the main artery between the bleeding point and the heart.

He saw his mother's beloved mentor, and his own best friend, Artamon Matvyeev, torn, bruised and bleeding, from his retaining grasp and hacked to pieces.

In the intestine tannic acid controls intestinal bleeding, acting as a powerful astringent and causing constipation; for this reason it has been recommended to check diarrhoea.

The first of these, which would imply a process of a very remarkable nature, is disproved by what is observed after bleeding an animal whose blood contains antitoxin.

The salts of iron quickly cause coagulation of the blood, and the clot plugs the bleeding vessels.

Three years after his defeat at Beresteczko, Chmielnicki, finding himself unable to cope with the Poles single-handed, very reluctantly transferred his allegiance to the tsar, and the same year the tsar's armies invaded Poland, still bleeding from the all but mortal wounds inflicted on her by the Cossacks.

His head was burning, he felt himself bleeding to death, and he saw above him the remote, lofty, and everlasting sky.

All he saw about him merged into a general impression of naked, bleeding human bodies that seemed to fill the whole of the low tent, as a few weeks previously, on that hot August day, such bodies had filled the dirty pond beside the Smolensk road.

She's bleeding to death!

Brooks (1819-1857), a congressman from South Carolina, suddenly confronted Sumner as he sat writing at his desk in the Senate chamber, denounced his speech as a libel upon his state and upon Butler, his relative, and before Sumner, pinioned by his desk, could make the slightest resistance, rained blow after blow upon his head, till his victim sank bleeding and unconscious upon the floor.

But the wolf jumped up more quickly than anyone could have expected and, gnashing her teeth, flew at the yellowish borzoi, which, with a piercing yelp, fell with its head on the ground, bleeding from a gash in its side.

On all sides, the hussars were busy with the dragoons; one was wounded, but though his face was bleeding, he would not give up his horse; another was perched up behind an hussar with his arms round him; a third was being helped by an hussar to mount his horse.

Vitamin C deficiency results in scurvy, a disease that involves bleeding.

Howie was able to view the abduction, though it was particularly brutal as the young boy was knocked unconscious and bleeding.

Sofia found the internal bleeding.

We've stopped the bleeding.

She closed her eyes, terrified of bleeding to death right there in her own home.

Rhyn paced, eyeing Erik, whose bloodied nose had finally stopped bleeding.

Your dress is torn and you're bleeding.

He also made extensive use of drugs and of bleeding.

He was very moderate in the use of bleeding.

It led, among other consequences, to an enormous misuse of bleeding.

His disorder was an oedematous affection of the wind-pipe, contracted by exposure during a long ride in a snowstorm, and aggravated by neglect and by such contemporary remedies as bleeding, gargles of "molasses, vinegar and butter" and "vinegar and sage tea," which "almost suffocated him," and a blister of cantharides.

The favorite subject of themysteries and of other artistic manifestations was no longer the triumphant Christ of the middle ages, nor the smiling and teaching Christ of the I3th century, but the Man of sorrows and of death, the naked bleeding Jesus, lying on the knees of his mother or crowned with thorns.

Rhyn.s anger stirred at the sight of her bleeding alone, and he crossed to her, snatching the first aid kit off the bed.

The result of an INR test then was grossly abnormal, Mrs Y had peritonitis and was bleeding from her bowel.