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 verb1 a: to emit or lose blood b: to sacrifice one's blood especially in battle2: 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 it5 a: to pay out or give money b: to have money extorted6: to be printed so as to run off one or more edges of the page after trimmingtransitive verb1: to remove or draw blood from2: to get or extort money from especially over a prolonged period3: 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