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Bleeding vs Wounded - What's the difference?

bleeding | wounded |

As verbs the difference between bleeding and wounded

is that bleeding is while wounded is (wound).

As adjectives the difference between bleeding and wounded

is that bleeding is (uk|slang) (used as an intensifier) extreme, outright while wounded is suffering from a wound, especially one acquired in battle.

As nouns the difference between bleeding and wounded

is that bleeding is the flow or loss of blood from a damaged blood vessel while wounded is (qualifier) people who are maimed or have wounds.

As an adverb bleeding

is (uk|slang) (used as an intensifier) extremely.

bleeding

English

Verb

(head)

    • Derived terms

    * bleeding heart

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (UK, slang) (used as an intensifier) extreme, outright.
  • * "You are a bleeding liar. Truth is of no interest to you at all." — [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.software.year-2000/msg/ba82c9dd28cde368]
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    "You are a bleeding idiot sometimes, but I love you and", Harry hands him the first gift Severus ever gave him and says, "One hundred and sixteen."

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (UK, slang) (used as an intensifier) Extremely.
    • His car's motor is bleeding smoking down the motorway.
    It turns out he was too bleeding cheap to ever drain the oil.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The flow or loss of blood from a damaged blood vessel.
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  • (medicine, historical) bloodletting

    • Related terms

    * bleeder * bleedingly * blood * bloody English degree adverbs English intensifiers

    wounded

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (wound)
  • * 1913: )
    • Nila, Agni's son, brandishing an uptorn tree, rushed on Prahasta; but he wounded the monkey with showers of arows.

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Suffering from a wound, especially one acquired in battle.
  • * 1883:
    • ...he was deadly pale, and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded , and still more recently dressed.
  • (figuratively) Suffering from an emotional injury.
    • My wounded pride never recovered from her rejection.

    Noun

    (en-plural noun)
  • (qualifier) People who are maimed or have wounds.
    • The wounded lay on stretchers waiting for surgery.

    Derived terms

    * walking wounded