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

Knight, who was bleeding from the mouth, mocked Omega’s terminator taunt. — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026

The nurse used his running vest chest strap like a sling, and one of his friends walked behind him to monitor for bleeding. — Erin Clack, PEOPLE, 26 July 2026

The state autopsy could assess whether there’s any damage to the larynx and other neck structures, and whether there was evidence of bleeding inside the head, according to Graham. — Dalia Faheid, CNN Money, 23 July 2026

The Canucks finished dead last in the NHL this past season, with the team’s struggles bleeding into Pettersson’s game. — Vincent Z. Mercogliano, New York Times, 23 July 2026

While the bleeding-edge technology and contract signing worth the GDP of a small nation are the headlines, the Farnborough International Airshow is a story in and of itself. — David Szondy july 23, New Atlas, 23 July 2026

Once the outer lining tears, the testicle can bleed internally while also bleeding into the scrotum. — Angela Haupt, Time, 22 July 2026

Your average 14th-century European male was more likely to be starving to death from a bad harvest or bleeding out from the plague than riding into battle in gleaming armor. — Elizabeth Dray, STAT, 21 July 2026

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