bleedings

Noun

bleeding (countable and uncountable, plural bleedings)

1. The flow or loss of blood from a damaged blood vessel.
   • Internal bleeding is often difficult to detect and can lead to death in a short time.
2. (historical) Bloodletting.
   • Notwithstanding the employ of general and local bleeding, blisters, &c., the patient died on the fourth day after entrance.1833, R. J. Bertin, translated by Charles W. Chauncy, Treatise on the Diseases of the Heart, and Great Vessels, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blnachard, page 24
3. (figuratively) Depletion of a given resource; draining, sapping, weakening.
   • the bleeding of the budget
4. (colloquial, euphemistic) Menstruation.
   • Owing to the prudery of Victorian times, people hardly dared talk about bleeding at all — even privately, let alone publicly.

   Synonyms:

   Aunt Flo, Aunt Frieda, Aunt Rose, blob, blood sports, Bloody Mary, blowjob week, breaching the beaver dam, catamenia, caught short

5. (graphic arts) The migration of impressions (dents), ink, or both through the substrate (paper or otherwise).

   Synonyms:

   bleed-through, print-through

6. (graphic arts) Printing past the edge of the leaf (past the trim).

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