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bleeding like a pig

bleeding like a pig is the present participle and gerund of bleed like a pig.

Meaning of bleed like a pig

Verb

bleed like a pig (third-person singular simple present bleeds like a pig, present participle bleeding like a pig, simple past and past participle bled like a pig)

  1. (simile) To bleed profusely.
    • "They carried off their wounded comrade - he was bleedin' like a pig - and then they sat around us, and if ever I saw frozen murder it was in their faces."1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

Questions about bleeding like a pig

What is bleeding like a pig the present participle and gerund of?
Bleeding like a pig is the present participle and gerund of bleed like a pig.

Words near bleeding like a pig in the dictionary

  1. bleeding heart
  2. bleeding hearts
  3. bleeding heck
  4. bleeding hell
  5. Bleeding Kansas
  6. bleeding like a pig
  7. bleeding like a stuck hog
  8. bleeding like a stuck pig
  9. bleeding Nora
  10. bleeding oak crust
  11. bleeding out

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