Words that rhyme with bleeding

  • beading
    n 1: ornamentation with beads [syn: beading, beadwork] 2: a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture [syn: beading, bead, beadwork, astragal]
  • beating
    n 1: the act of overcoming or outdoing [syn: beating, whipping] 2: the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows [syn: beating, thrashing, licking, drubbing, lacing, trouncing, whacking]
  • breathing
    adj 1: passing or able to pass air in and out of the lungs normally; sometimes used in combination; "the boy was disappointed to find only skeletons instead of living breathing dinosaurs"; "the heavy-breathing person on the telephone" [syn: breathing, eupneic, eupnoeic] [ant: breathless, dyspneal, dyspneic, dyspnoeal, dyspnoeic] n 1: the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation [syn: breathing, external respiration, respiration, ventilation]
  • breeding
    adj 1: producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring; "the breeding population"; "retained a few bulls for breeding purposes" n 1: elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression [syn: breeding, genteelness, gentility] 2: the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior); "a woman of breeding and refinement" [syn: education, training, breeding] 3: helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community; "they debated whether nature or nurture was more important" [syn: breeding, bringing up, fostering, fosterage, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringing] 4: the production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization 5: the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring [syn: reproduction, procreation, breeding, facts of life]
  • ceding
    n 1: the act of ceding [syn: cession, ceding]
  • conceding
    n 1: the act of conceding or yielding [syn: concession, conceding, yielding]
  • dreaming
    n 1: imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake; "he lives in a dream that has nothing to do with reality" [syn: dream, dreaming] 2: a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep; "I had a dream about you last night" [syn: dream, dreaming]
  • eating
    n 1: the act of consuming food [syn: eating, feeding]
  • evening
    n 1: the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall); "he enjoyed the evening light across the lake" [syn: evening, eve, even, eventide] 2: a later concluding time period; "it was the evening of the Roman Empire" 3: the early part of night (from dinner until bedtime) spent in a special way; "an evening at the opera"
  • exceeding
    adj 1: far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree; "a night of exceeding darkness"; "an exceptional memory"; "olympian efforts to save the city from bankruptcy"; "the young Mozart's prodigious talents" [syn: exceeding, exceptional, olympian, prodigious, surpassing]
  • feeding
    n 1: the act of consuming food [syn: eating, feeding] 2: the act of supplying food and nourishment [syn: feeding, alimentation]
  • impeding
    adj 1: preventing movement; "the clogging crowds of revelers overflowing into the street" [syn: clogging, hindering, impeding, obstructive]
  • inbreeding
    n 1: the act of mating closely related individuals
  • leading
    adj 1: indicating the most important performer or role; "the leading man"; "prima ballerina"; "prima donna"; "a star figure skater"; "the starring role"; "a stellar role"; "a stellar performance" [syn: leading(p), prima(p), star(p), starring(p), stellar(a)] 2: greatest in importance or degree or significance or achievement; "our greatest statesmen"; "the country's leading poet"; "a preeminent archeologist" [syn: leading(a), preeminent] 3: going or proceeding or going in advance; showing the way; "we rode in the leading car"; "the leading edge of technology" [ant: following] 4: having the leading position or higher score in a contest; "he is ahead by a pawn"; "the leading team in the pennant race" [syn: ahead(p), in the lead, leading] n 1: thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing [syn: lead, leading] 2: the activity of leading; "his leadership inspired the team" [syn: leadership, leading]
  • leaving
    n 1: the act of departing [syn: departure, going, going away, leaving]
  • meaning
    adj 1: rich in significance or implication; "a meaning look" [syn: meaning(a), pregnant, significant] n 1: the message that is intended or expressed or signified; "what is the meaning of this sentence"; "the significance of a red traffic light"; "the signification of Chinese characters"; "the import of his announcement was ambiguous" [syn: meaning, significance, signification, import] 2: the idea that is intended; "What is the meaning of this proverb?" [syn: meaning, substance]
  • meeting
    n 1: a formally arranged gathering; "next year the meeting will be in Chicago"; "the meeting elected a chairperson" [syn: meeting, group meeting] 2: a small informal social gathering; "there was an informal meeting in my living room" [syn: meeting, get together] 3: a casual or unexpected convergence; "he still remembers their meeting in Paris"; "there was a brief encounter in the hallway" [syn: meeting, encounter] 4: the social act of assembling for some common purpose; "his meeting with the salesmen was the high point of his day" [syn: meeting, coming together] 5: the act of joining together as one; "the merging of the two groups occurred quickly"; "there was no meeting of minds" [syn: merging, meeting, coming together] 6: a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers); "Pittsburgh is located at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers" [syn: confluence, meeting]
  • misleading
    adj 1: designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently; "the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm"; "deliberately deceptive packaging"; "a misleading similarity"; "statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading"; "shoddy business practices" [syn: deceptive, misleading, shoddy]
  • misreading
    n 1: misinterpretation caused by inaccurate reading
  • nothing
    adv 1: in no respect; to no degree; "he looks nothing like his father" n 1: a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it" [syn: nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo]
  • pleading
    adj 1: begging [syn: beseeching, pleading, imploring] [ant: imperative] n 1: (law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding
  • preceding
    adj 1: existing or coming before [ant: succeeding(a)] 2: of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office; "a retiring member of the board" [syn: past(a), preceding(a), retiring(a)]
  • proceeding
    n 1: (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked [syn: proceeding, legal proceeding, proceedings]
  • reading
    n 1: the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message; "his main reading was detective stories"; "suggestions for further reading" 2: a particular interpretation or performance; "on that reading it was an insult"; "he was famous for his reading of Mozart" 3: a datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument; "he could not believe the meter reading"; "the barometer gave clear indications of an approaching storm" [syn: reading, meter reading, indication] 4: written material intended to be read; "the teacher assigned new readings"; "he bought some reading material at the airport" [syn: reading, reading material] 5: a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something [syn: interpretation, reading, version] 6: a city on the River Thames in Berkshire in southern England 7: a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance; "the program included songs and recitations of well-loved poems" [syn: recitation, recital, reading] 8: the act of measuring with meters or similar instruments; "he has a job meter reading for the gas company" [syn: reading, meter reading]
  • receding
    adj 1: (of a hairline e.g.) moving slowly back n 1: a slow or gradual disappearance [syn: receding, fadeout] 2: the act of becoming more distant [syn: receding, recession]
  • scheming
    adj 1: used of persons; "the most calculating and selfish men in the community" [syn: calculating, calculative, conniving, scheming, shrewd] 2: concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest; "a selfish and designing nation obsessed with the dark schemes of European intrigue"- W.Churchill; "a scheming wife"; "a scheming gold digger" [syn: designing, scheming]
  • seeking
    n 1: the act of searching for something; "a quest for diamonds" [syn: quest, seeking] 2: an attempt to acquire or gain something
  • sleeping
    adj 1: lying with head on paws as if sleeping [syn: dormant(ip), sleeping] n 1: the state of being asleep [ant: waking] 2: quiet and inactive restfulness [syn: quiescence, quiescency, dormancy, sleeping] 3: the suspension of consciousness and decrease in metabolic rate
  • speeding
    n 1: changing location rapidly [syn: speed, speeding, hurrying]
  • squeezing
    n 1: the act of gripping and pressing firmly; "he gave her cheek a playful squeeze" [syn: squeeze, squeezing]
  • succeeding
    adj 1: coming after or following [ant: preceding(a)] 2: (of elected officers) elected but not yet serving; "our next president" [syn: future(a), next, succeeding(a)]
  • acceding
  • deeding
  • deleting
  • heeding
  • kneading
  • needing
  • rereading
  • seceding
  • seeding
  • stampeding
  • superseding
  • weeding
  • reeding
  • reding
  • preceeding
  • interceding

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