Synonyms of bleeding

bleeding 1 of 2

adjective

as in burning

Related Words

• burning
• cramping
• stinging
• festering
• swollen
• nagging
• damaging
• chafing
• raw
• harmful
• itching
• detrimental
• pinching
• inflamed
• pernicious
• injurious
• smarting
• deleterious
• tender
• pricking
• prickling
• noxious
• hurtful
• agonizing
• hurting
• aching
• severe
• painful
• threatening
• excruciating
• sore
• torturous
• grievous
• wounding
• achy
• afflictive
• nasty

Dissimilar Words

• helping
• healing
• painless
• remedial
• indolent
• curative

bleeding

2 of 2

verb

present participle of bleed

1

as in grieving

to feel deep sadness or mental pain

her heart bleeds for the homeless people she sees on her way to work

Synonyms & Similar Words

• grieving
• aching
• mourning
• sighing
• suffering
• crying
• hurting
• agonizing
• sobbing
• weeping
• sorrowing
• anguishing
• groaning
• smarting
• eating one's heart out
• moaning
• tearing one's hair
• tormenting
• torturing
• pining (away)
• howling
• bewailing
• blubbering
• longing (for)
• bawling
• wailing
• yammering
• lamenting
• racking
• yowling
• deploring
• languishing
• keening
• bemoaning
• ruing
• regretting
• taking on

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• laughing
• cheering
• rejoicing
• exulting
• beaming
• ravishing
• glorying
• triumphing
• delighting
• crowing
• reassuring
• comforting
• assuring
• sympathizing
• consoling
• soothing
• joying
• commiserating
• solacing

2

as in dripping

to flow forth slowly through small openings

pitch was bleeding from cuts in the tree bark

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dripping
• weeping
• seeping
• flowing
• oozing
• sweating
• exuding
• percolating
• transuding
• straining
• trickling
• dribbling
• emanating
• emitting
• giving off
• springing
• venting
• discharging

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• pouring
• flooding
• streaming
• surging
• gushing

3

as in draining

to remove (liquid) gradually or completely

bleed water from the radiators

Synonyms & Similar Words

• draining
• pumping
• sucking
• tapping
• siphoning
• emptying
• drawing (off)
• cleaning
• evacuating
• drafting
• flushing
• milking
• purging
• exhausting
• clearing
• voiding
• depleting
• vacating
• vacuating
• decanting
• effusing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• filling
• wetting
• washing
• watering
• soaking
• bathing
• drenching
• flooding
• drowning
• dousing
• overflowing
• inundating
• sousing
• submerging
• swamping
• deluging

4

as in squeezing

to rob by the use of trickery or threats

the confidence men coldheartedly bled the elderly couple of their life savings

Synonyms & Similar Words

• squeezing
• cheating
• plucking
• stinging
• beating
• hustling
• sticking
• screwing
• doing
• deceiving
• reaming
• fiddling
• fleecing
• victimizing
• defrauding
• mulcting
• swindling
• shaking down
• shortchanging
• gaffing
• skinning
• suckering
• shorting
• chiseling
• ripping off
• hosing
• bilking
• rooking
• exploiting
• diddling
• stiffing
• tricking
• flimflamming
• conning
• thimblerigging
• chousing
• wrenching
• betraying
• euchring
• cozening
• nobbling
• doing in
• fooling
• clipping
• taking for a ride
• gouging
• skunking
• taking to the cleaners
• extorting
• soaking
• selling a bill of goods to
• wringing
• milking
• nicking
• overcharging
• wresting
• duping
• gulling
• bitching
• roping (in)
• bamboozling
• double-crossing
• fast-talking

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of bleeding

Adjective

Dickerson was the first physician to treat Mike Studeny, who was diagnosed with a non-bleeding stroke. — Christa Swanson, CBS News, 9 May 2026

In tests using mice, after surgical damage to the liver, AGCL was able to perform significantly better than other current anti-bleeding agents, with normal liver function returning just two weeks after its application. — New Atlas, 21 Jan. 2026

These injuries resulted in 684 days lost per 1,000 training hours during menstruation, compared to 206 days lost during non-bleeding days. — Ciara Lucas, SELF, 16 Dec. 2025

Verb

Roma arrived at the World Trade Center while both towers stood defiantly tall, each pierced by Boeing 767s, bleeding with jet fuel and spewing smoke that promised to eventually bring them down. — Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2026

Responders found Anjana Hari, 32, lying in the parking lot bleeding from her head and pronounced her dead shortly after, according to a detective’s statement provided by the district attorney’s office. — Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026

Terry has been shoved over the railing by an unknown assailant, and is now bleeding out on the floor below. — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2026

In a sport like boxing, that alone can have devastating effects even without reaching the extremes of serious loss of water, which can lead to heat strokes or, as with Farrell, bleeding on the brain because of the lack of cerebrospinal fluid. — Sarah Shephard, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026

Experts say that doctors should be able to offer treatment when other symptoms are present, such as plateauing pregnancy hormone levels, bleeding and abdominal pain. — Andrea Suozzo, ProPublica, 9 Sep. 2026

He got hurt in the second quarter after a Mean Green defender grabbed his facemask and busted his nose open, and Hoover’s nose was bleeding profusely. — Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Sep. 2026

Because of the excruciating pain, McCoy wouldn’t let Corle check his bleeding arms, both of which had multiple compound fractures. — Jan Thacker, Outdoor Life, 3 Sep. 2026

That off-field baggage is now bleeding into Nacua’s contract talks. — Alejandro Avila Outkick, FOXNews.com, 2 Sep. 2026