bleeder
English
noun
Definitions
- A person who is easily made to bleed, or who bleeds in unusually large amounts, particularly a hemophiliac.
- (surgery) A blood vessel that requires cauterization etc. to stop it from bleeding during surgery.
- Anything that saps a resource produced by something else.
- A valve designed to release a small amount of excess pressure from a system.
- (UK) A troublesome fellow; a blighter.
- A person who spends a great deal of time playing video games.
Etymology
Suffix from English bleed.
Origin
English
bleed
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Distribution of cognates by language
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Cognates and derived terms
- bebleed English
- bleed English
- bleedable English
- bleedest English
- bleedeth English
- counterbleed English
- forbleed English
- macrobleed English
- microbleed English
- nose English
- nosebleed English
- nosebleeder English
- outbleed English
- overbleed English
- rebleed English
- bleden Middle English