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Breathing vs Bleeding - What's the difference?

breathing | bleeding |

As verbs the difference between breathing and bleeding

is that breathing is while bleeding is .

As nouns the difference between breathing and bleeding

is that breathing is the act of respiration; a single instance of this while bleeding is the flow or loss of blood from a damaged blood vessel.

As an adjective bleeding is

(uk|slang) (used as an intensifier) extreme, outright.

As an adverb bleeding is

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

breathing

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of respiration; a single instance of this.
  • A diacritical mark indicating aspiration or lack thereof.
  • (archaic) Time to recover one's breath; hence, a delay, a spell of time.
  • * 1599 ,
  • DON PEDRO. Count Claudio, when mean you to go to church?
    CLAUDIO. To-morrow, my lord. Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.
    LEONATO. Not till Monday, my dear son, which is hence a just seven-night; and a time too brief too, to have all things answer my mind.
    DON PEDRO. Come, you shake the head at so long a breathing ; but, I warrant thee, Claudio, the time shall not go dully by us.
  • Any gentle influence or operation; inspiration.
  • the breathings of the Holy Spirit
  • Aspiration; secret prayer.
  • * Tillotson
  • earnest desires and breathings after that blessed state

    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