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

Murai always believed spring, bleeding into summer, was the right time to launch. — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2026

Nearby firefighters with the Colorado Springs Fire Department (CSFD) rushed to aid a bleeding Lopez, bringing whole blood to the accident site to provide a life-saving transfusion. — Brian Anthony Hernandez, PEOPLE, 9 Aug. 2026

Cunningham had to be restrained following the play and appeared to show her teammates that her mouth was bleeding. — Dan Zaksheske Outkick, FOXNews.com, 8 Aug. 2026

Consider adding a towel to the area if their incision is still bleeding. — Cody Godwin, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2026

Situational Awareness, founded by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, was forced to unwind many of its positions after a sharp reversal in artificial intelligence trades left it bleeding on both sides of its book. — Yun Li, CNBC, 5 Aug. 2026

Health systems are bleeding capital on custom API development, multi-department change management and the massive cloud compute costs required to run inefficient, siloed models. — Sridhar Yerramreddy, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026

Valarie hit her head on the pavement, causing bleeding on her brain. — Mike Hellgren, CBS News, 31 July 2026

At Duke University Hospital, these patients may be trauma patients in car accidents, patients receiving liver transplants and pregnant patients with bleeding. — Eva Flowe july 30, Charlotte Observer, 30 July 2026