bleeding

Other forms of bleeding

plural

bleedings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bleeding

What does bleeding mean?

bleeding means "the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel".

How many syllables are in bleeding?

bleeding has 2 syllables: blee-ding. The stress falls on "blee". In IPA it is /ˈblidɪŋ/.

What is another word for bleeding?

Close synonyms include hemorrhage, haemorrhage. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bleeding a common word?

bleeding is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.