different between bleeder vs bleeding

English

Etymology

bleed +? -er

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?blid?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?bli?d?/
• Hyphenation: bleed?er

Noun

bleeder (plural bleeders)

1. A person who is easily made to bleed, or who bleeds in unusually large amounts, particularly a hemophiliac.
2. (surgery) A blood vessel that requires cauterization etc. to stop it from bleeding during surgery.
3. Anything that saps a resource produced by something else.
4. A valve designed to release a small amount of excess pressure from a system.
5. (Britain, slang, derogatory) A troublesome fellow or thing; a blighter.
   • 1938, Louis MacNeice, Bagpipe Music

     His brother caught three hundred cran when the seas were lavish, / Threw the bleeders back in the sea and went upon the parish.

   • 1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, Chapter 36,

     ‘Well, what did the old bleeder say?’ said Opus Fluke.

6. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) A person who spends a great deal of time playing video games.

Translations

Anagrams

• rebleed

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bli?d??/
• Rhymes: -i?d??
• Hyphenation: bleed?ing

Verb

bleeding

1. present participle of bleed

Adjective

bleeding (not comparable)

1. Losing blood
2. (Britain, slang, intensifier) extreme, outright; see also bloody (sense 3).
   • "You are a bleeding liar. Truth is of no interest to you at all." — [1]

   • "You are a bleeding idiot sometimes, but I love you and", Harry hands him the first gift Severus ever gave him and says, "One hundred and sixteen."

Translations

Derived terms

• bleeding edge
• bleeding heart

Adverb

bleeding (not comparable)

1. (Britain, slang) used as an intensifier: Extremely.

Noun

bleeding (countable and uncountable, plural bleedings)

1. The flow or loss of blood from a damaged blood vessel.
2. (medicine, historical) Bloodletting.

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Related terms

• bleeder
• bleedingly
• blood
• bloody