Bleeder

Quick meaning: Bleeder is a noun meaning A person who is easily made to bleed, or who bleeds in unusually large amounts, particularly a hemophiliac.

Meaning

A person who is easily made to bleed, or who bleeds in unusually large amounts, particularly a hemophiliac.

More Meanings

1. (surgery) A blood vessel that requires cauterization etc. to stop it from bleeding during surgery.
2. Anything that saps a resource produced by something else.
3. A valve designed to release a small amount of excess pressure from a system.
4. (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang, derogatory) A troublesome fellow or thing; a blighter.
5. (baseball) Synonym of scratch hit.
6. (LGBTQ) A person who menstruates (used in the context of transgender inclusivity).

Example Sentences

‘Well, what did the old bleeder say?’ said Opus Fluke.

Ligate or cauterize small subcutaneous bleeders and identify the linea alba.

His brother caught three hundred cran when the seas were lavish, / Threw the bleeders back in the sea and went upon the parish.

Vostral (2008) sees menstrual technology as focused on allowing women to “pass” as non-bleeders, speaking to the sense of the female body as dysfunctional, problematic, and “out of control.”

Word Forms

• bleeders

Synonyms for bleeder

Depending on context, synonyms include hemophiliac, haemophiliac.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hemophiliac, haemophiliac, hemorrhage, bleeding, haemorrhage, bleed.

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