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Oozing vs Bleeding - What's the difference?

oozing | bleeding |

As verbs the difference between oozing and bleeding

is that oozing is present participle of lang=en while bleeding is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between oozing and bleeding

is that oozing is something that oozes; a seepage while bleeding is the flow or loss of blood from a damaged blood vessel.

As an adjective bleeding is

(used as an intensifier) extreme, outright.

As an adverb bleeding is

(used as an intensifier) Extremely.

oozing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that oozes; a seepage.
  • * 1855 , Henry Stephens, John Stuart Skinner, The book of the farm (page 320)
    • A 12-acre field of good, deep land on the farm of Frenchlaw, in Berwickshire, was rendered swampy by springs and oozings of water from the surrounding rising ground being retained upon the clay subsoil.

    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]
  • *{{quote-web
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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.
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=A better waterworks, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838
    • , page=5 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic
  • (medicine, historical) bloodletting

    • Related terms

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