BLEEDS Synonyms: 177 Similar and Opposite Words

bleeds

verb

present tense third-person singular of bleed

as in grieves

to feel deep sadness or mental pain her heart bleeds for the homeless people she sees on her way to work

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as in drips

to flow forth slowly through small openings pitch was bleeding from cuts in the tree bark

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as in drains

to remove (liquid) gradually or completely bleed water from the radiators

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as in squeezes

to rob by the use of trickery or threats the confidence men coldheartedly bled the elderly couple of their life savings

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Recent Examples of bleeds Loyalties typically drive a supporter’s wish to see their favourites win the biggest accolades but that, in turn, bleeds into why individual honours now mean so much to players and their clubs. — Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026 Political identity functions similarly, and increasingly bleeds into professional contexts. — Big Think, 21 Aug. 2026 Matthew Robert Cooper’s unnerving ambient score bleeds into the relentless dink-dink-dink of the Jeep’s strobing hazard lights. — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2026 The part east of West Broadway that bleeds into the grit of the Financial District, the skyscrapers so tall and the streets so narrow that sunlight doesn’t reach much at all. — Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 10 Aug. 2026 Evidence of silence quietly (sorry) breaking apart one’s bearings bleeds through both the main plot thread and satellite storylines, which include recurring visits to a client of Ninh’s and that man’s own conflicts with his distant wife. — Josh Slater-Williams, IndieWire, 10 Aug. 2026 The cancer, polycythemia vera, is marked by runaway production of red blood cells and puts patients at risk of life-threatening blood clots, bleeds, and other cancers. — Jason Mast, STAT, 10 Aug. 2026 The two-minute track bleeds into the title track, which highlights one of the EP’s main issues – the overuse of autotune and vocoders. — Quentin Thane Singer, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026 Deepening hostility toward Israel has spurred concern about antisemitism among some moderate Democrats and Jewish Americans, who believe anti-Israel rhetoric too often bleeds into prejudice. — ABC News, 26 July 2026

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When reached by phone Tuesday morning, a woman who identified herself as Destiny’s mother declined to comment and requested privacy as the family grieves.

— Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 25 Aug. 2026
My heart grieves for someone so special to this world and such a good friend to me.

— Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of grieves

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Omnivores should punch up the platter with the special beef kitfo, raw steak that drips with herbed, purified butter and gets its fiery kick from mitmita, a spice blend with chile peppers.

— Warren Rojas, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2026
Massage tools now sit alongside health trackers and IV drips as one of the discretionary categories where younger consumers are outspending everyone else.

— Rhett Power, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026

Definition of drips

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Beijing is quite happy, for now at least, to watch as the US drains its treasure policing the world’s sea lanes, keeping transnational drug gangs and fraudsters in check, and maintaining global financial stability.

— Andy Browne, semafor.com, 8 Sep. 2026
Aerate The Soil Soil that drains poorly and becomes waterlogged will cause grass to suffer, but nutgrass can flourish in these conditions.

— Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of drains

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That obviously makes Labor Day a particularly good excuse to mix a cocktail that squeezes a little more out of summer.

— Emily Price, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
After leaving Vancouver, the route follows the Fraser River through the fertile Fraser Valley and into the Coast Mountains, passing Hell’s Gate, where the river squeezes through a narrow canyon, before arriving in Kamloops for the night.

— Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of squeezes

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And that overall sense of purpose flows from a production unusually well-protected by the women who truly understand this fictional world’s appeal.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2026
The organizations that will move fastest in 2027 will be the ones redesigning how work flows across people, processes, governance and enterprise systems.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of flows

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The first uses a special rig that pumps sCO₂ through real downhole equipment under realistic conditions.

— Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2026
The Pod sits atop your mattress and connects to a hub that pumps heated or cooled water through internal tubing, with each side of the bed running its own heat zone.

— Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of pumps

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His torso and thighs grow eye-poppingly muscular beneath their skimpy fur-and-leather togs—a development that does not go unnoticed by a warrior named Red Hair, who plucks the young hunk from his post and tosses him into the prime time of the gladiator pit.

— Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
But the emotional gravity of this offering's deeply personal, melancholic lyrical content plucks an undeniably profound chord that uniquely separates it from the rest of his work.

— Chris Barilla, PEOPLE, 29 May 2026