bleeding

bleeding
/blee"ding/, n.
1. the act, fact, or process of losing blood or having blood flow.
2. the act or process of drawing blood from a person, esp. surgically; bloodletting.
3. the extension of color beyond an edge or border, esp. so as to combine with a contiguous color or to affect an adjacent area.
adj.
4. sending forth blood: a bleeding sore.
5. feeling, expressing, or characterized by extreme or excessive anguish and compassion.
6. Brit. Slang. (used as an intensifier): bleeding fool.
adv.
7. Brit. Slang. (used as an intensifier): a bleeding silly idea.
[1175-1225; ME (n. and adj.); see BLEED, -ING1, -ING2]

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  • Bleeding Me — Single infobox Name = Bleeding Me Artist = Metallica from Album = Load B side = Bleeding Me (Radio edit) Released = 1997 Recorded = May 1995 February 1996 at The Plant Studios, Sausalito, California Genre = Hard rock Length = 8:18 Writer = Kirk… …   Wikipedia

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