Bleeding
['bliːdɪŋ] or ['blidɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bleed
(a.) Emitting, or appearing to emit, blood or sap, etc.; also, expressing anguish or compassion.
(n.) A running or issuing of blood, as from the nose or a wound; a hemorrhage; the operation of letting blood, as in surgery; a drawing or running of sap from a tree or plant.
Typist: Toni
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Phlebotomy, venesection, blood-letting.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of bleeding, denotes death by horrible accidents and malicious reports about you. Fortune will turn against you.
Edited by Bertram
Examples
- My dear, I have seen it bleeding. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Plornish lived in Bleeding Heart Yard. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Where I took her into this wretched breast when it was first bleeding from its stabs, and where I have lavished years of tenderness upon her! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- And he struck the Peer twice over the face with his open hand and flung him bleeding to the ground. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- When I came to I found that it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- It plained of its gaping wounds, its inward bleeding, its riven chords. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He steered straight for Mrs Plornish's end of Bleeding Heart Yard, and arrived there, at the top of the steps, hotter than ever. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- This, therefore, might be called a political position of the Bleeding Hearts; but they entertained other objections to having foreigners in the Yard. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The wounded, sardonic young man moved away, ignoring his bleeding hand in the most conspicuous fashion. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He passed along the streets as usual to Bleeding Heart Yard, and had his dinner with his daughter and son-in-law, and gave them Phyllis. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- His face is bleeding and covered with dust, but he cannot touch it; thereupon they laugh again. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The poor bleeding heart was still, at last, and the river rippled and dimpled just as brightly as if it had not closed above it. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- He was totally unaffected by the abrupt change in pressure, although the deepest he had ever been was ninety feet, and on that occasion he had suffered from bleeding at the nose and ears. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It was uphill work for a foreigner, lame or sound, to make his way with the Bleeding Hearts. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- No tear dropped over that pillow; in such straits as these, the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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