Main Entry: ¹bleed

Pronunciation: \ˈblēd\

Function: verb

Inflected Form(s): bled \ˈbled\; bleed·ing

Etymology: Middle English bleden, from Old English blēdan, from blōd blood

Date: before 12th century

intransitive verb 1 a : to emit or lose blood b : to sacrifice one's blood especially in battle
2 : to feel anguish, pain, or sympathy <a heart that bleeds at a friend's misfortune>
3 a : to escape by oozing or flowing (as from a wound) b : to spread into or through something gradually : seep <foreign policy bleeds into economic policy — J. B. Judis>
4 : to give up some constituent (as sap or dye) by exuding or diffusing it
5 a : to pay out or give money b : to have money extorted
6 : to be printed so as to run off one or more edges of the page after trimmingtransitive verb 1 : to remove or draw blood from
2 : to get or extort money from especially over a prolonged period
3 : to draw sap from (a tree)
4 a : to extract or let out some or all of a contained substance from <bleed a brake line> b : to extract or cause to escape from a container c : to diminish gradually —usually used with off <a pilot bleeding off airspeed> d : to lose rapidly and uncontrollably <the company was bleeding money> e : sap <cost overruns…bleed other programs — Alex Roland>
5 : to cause (as a printed illustration) to bleed

— bleed white : to drain of blood or resources