BLEEDER

hemophiliac, haemophiliac, bleeder, hemophile, haemophile

(noun) someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

bleeder (plural bleeders)

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, slang, derogatory) A troublesome fellow; a blighter.

A person who spends a great deal of time playing video games.

Anagrams

• rebleed

Source: Wiktionary


Bleed"er, n. (Med.) (a) One who, or that which, draws blood. (b) One in whom slight wounds give rise to profuse or uncontrollable bleeding.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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