ear bleeding

Blood from canal

Ear bleeding describes sound so loud, harsh, or grating that it feels physically painful—as if your ears might actually bleed from exposure.

The phrase is hyperbolic: That feedback was ear bleeding, ear-bleeding volume.

Sometimes used as a compound adjective: an ear-bleeding guitar solo.

The related form is my ears are bleeding, expressing the same exaggerated distress.

Related

loud · loud music · noise · concert · headphones · pain · bloody · discharge · infection · injury · perforation · inner ear · ear canal · damage · hearing · loss · deafening · burst

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Opposites
bodily fluid direction

ear bleedinghemostasis

Process that stops bleeding

clotting

auditory experience quality

ear bleedingeargasm

Intense listening pleasure, slang

ear candy · easy listening · soothing sounds · melodious · dulcet tones

bodily symptom location

ear bleedingnosebleed

Nasal blood flow

Family

ears, eared, earring, eardrum, earhole, bleed, bleeds, bleeding, bled

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG