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Meaning of Bleeding | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1 Frequent
ˈbliːdɪŋ

Definitions

  1. The flow or loss of blood from a damaged blood vessel.
    countable, uncountable
  2. Bloodletting.
    countable, historical, uncountable
  3. Depletion of a given resource; draining, sapping, weakening.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
  4. Menstruation.
    colloquial, countable, euphemistic, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Internal bleeding is often difficult to detect and can lead to death in a short time.”
“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.”
“Notwithstanding the employ of general and local bleeding, blisters, &c., the patient died on the fourth day after entrance.”
“the bleeding of the budget”
“the bleeding of the treasury”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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