bleeding
/ˈbliːdɪŋ/ noun C2- 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.
- Bloodletting.
- Depletion of a given resource; draining, sapping, weakening. · the bleeding of the budget· the bleeding of the treasury
- 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).
- Printing past the edge of the leaf (past the trim).
Plural bleedings
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I do not see any indications of bleeding on the line.”
“And yet one would have expected some bleeding.
Of course, there was no bleeding on the line if the body had bled elsewhere.
There were rosy bleeding-hearts and great splendid crimson peonies; white, fragrant narcissi and thorny, sweet Scotch roses; pink and blue and white columbines and lilac-tinted Bouncing Bets; clumps of southernwood and ribbon grass and mint; purple Adam-and-Eve, daffodils, and masses of sweet clover white with its delicate, fragrant, feathery sprays; scarlet lightning that shot its fiery lances over prim white musk-flowers; a garden it was where sunshine lingered and bees hummed, and winds, beguiled into loitering, purred and rustled.
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