Bleeding

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”

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