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

Although there was no place to safely stop immediately after the incident, Siddiqui checked to see that Aisha wasn’t bleeding, but noticed there was glass on her and in her shoes. — Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 4 Aug. 2026

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

Of course, some oil will be switched from the Atlantic Basin to Asia instead of Europe, replaced by Suez oil, but nonetheless, the Houthis will be bleeding the market. — Michael Lynch, Forbes.com, 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

His teacher grabbed him and ran him bleeding down the halls, in circles, screaming through the school until help caught up. — Gabriel Winslow-Yost, New Yorker, 30 July 2026

On April 4 they were told to go to a house in unincorporated Miami-Dade, northwest of Cutler Bay, where they were again intensely beaten to the point where one of the victims was bleeding, investigators say. — Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 29 July 2026

Once out of the water, the focus can shift to bleeding control. — Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 29 July 2026

Lucky woke up to find Cary bleeding out next to her after having been shot. — Shelby Stivale, Entertainment Weekly, 29 July 2026