bleeding — Dizionario inglese

Aggettivo

1. Losing blood.

   Uso

   • not-comparable

   Esempi

   Altri esempi (1)

   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.

2. extreme, outright; bloody, blasted.

   Uso

   • uso britannico
   • emphatic
   • intensifier
   • not-comparable
   • gergo

   Esempi

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

   "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."

Avverbio

1. used as an intensifier: Extremely.

   Uso

   • uso britannico
   • not-comparable
   • gergo

   Esempi

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

   It turns out he was too bleeding cheap to ever drain the oil.

   Altri esempi (1)

   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 – […].

Sostantivo

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

   Uso

   • numerabile
   • non numerabile

   Esempi

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

   Altri esempi (1)

   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.

2. Bloodletting.

   Uso

   • numerabile
   • storico
   • non numerabile

   Esempi

   Notwithstanding the employ of general and local bleeding, blisters, &c., the patient died on the fourth day after entrance.

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

   Uso

   • numerabile
   • figurato
   • non numerabile

   Esempi

   the bleeding of the budget

   the bleeding of the treasury

4. Menstruation.

   Uso

   • colloquiale
   • numerabile
   • euphemistic
   • non numerabile

   Esempi

   Owing to the prudery of Victorian times, people hardly dared talk about bleeding at all — even privately, let alone publicly.

5. The migration of impressions (dents), ink, or both through the substrate (paper or otherwise).

   Uso

   • numerabile
   • non numerabile

   Sinonimi

   bleed-throughprint-through

6. Printing past the edge of the leaf (past the trim).

   Uso

   • numerabile
   • non numerabile

Sostantivo

1. the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel

   Sinonimi

   hemorrhagehaemorrhage

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