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

His head is bleeding into a pan, and his body is seated at a butcher block. — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 20 July 2026

Doctors diagnosed him with a cavernous angioma, a large lesion in his brain stem consisting of two components, one of which had ruptured and was bleeding into his brain. — Mary Ella Hastings updated July 16, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 July 2026

This 50-inch Hisense E7 smart TV is a sleek, medium-sized addition to your living room—just large enough to see all the fine details without bleeding into colossal home-theater territory. — Kelsey Fogarty, PC Magazine, 15 July 2026

Tracking can include cycle length, bleeding duration, flow intensity and pain severity—as well as when symptoms occur in relation to the menstrual cycle. — Lauryn Higgins, Flow Space, 14 July 2026

At times, though, her songs ran the risk of sounding too similar, bleeding into each other both sonically and lyrically. — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 14 July 2026

Doctors told state media outlet Vietnam News that the 49-year-old man had severe lung damage after nearly drowning, along with shock, multiple injuries and bleeding in the brain. — ABC News, 13 July 2026

Police and paramedics arrived in the 600 block of Sixth Street and found a man bleeding from a gunshot wound to the back side. — Ross Guidotti, CBS News, 13 July 2026

The exciting project funds last; the bleeding one funds first. — Pradeep Prasana Kanagaraj, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026