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bleeding white

bleeding white is the present participle and gerund of bleed white.

Meaning of bleed white

Verb

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

  1. (literally) To drain of blood extensively.
    Synonyms:
    exsanguinate
  2. (figuratively, informal, transitive) To cause life-threatening hardship through deprivation of essential resources.
    • France had been bled white by the war.1948, Winston Churchill, The Gathering Storm, Houghton Mifflin, published 1948, page 11

Questions about bleeding white

What is bleeding white the present participle and gerund of?
Bleeding white is the present participle and gerund of bleed white.

Words near bleeding white in the dictionary

  1. bleeding time
  2. bleeding time test
  3. bleeding time tests
  4. bleeding times
  5. bleeding tooth fungus
  6. bleeding white
  7. bleeding-edge
  8. bleeding-heart
  9. bleeding-heart monkey
  10. bleeding-heart monkeys
  11. bleeding-hearts

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