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 The ring-fencing isn't paranoia when data bleeds are a daily occurrence rather than a theoretical one. —

Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026 Walt then bleeds out as the feds arrive. —

Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 2 June 2026 Emotion slowly bleeds out of history; there is no tourniquet. —

Jack Lang, New York Times, 28 May 2026 Fat Joe bleeds Knicks blue, so he is treated like royalty in the Garden, and there’s nothing that a billionaire or A-lister can do about it. —

Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 19 May 2026 And this sense of mutual alienation, of being neither here nor there, that Franny and Elliott live with suggests that the political is no longer seen from a potentially abstract place and finally bleeds into realm of the personal. —

Lé Baltar, IndieWire, 17 May 2026 Sunlight bleeds in from the window where the sun is setting over the Venice Canals. —

Maddie Connors, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2026 The old media world is dying, and while that gloomy vigil bleeds into yet another dark hour, somewhere in the same hospital there’s a new world that’s about to be dragged into the light. —

Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 1 May 2026 Referencing Gandhi's observation that life is one indivisible whole, Esposito argues that a broken home life bleeds into workplace performance, while a struggling community erodes the stability of every family within it. —

William Jones, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2026

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As the community grieves yet another catastrophe, Elliott said she’s found comfort in the leadership of Davis, her longtime friend, high school classmate and now sheriff.

— Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 16 Oct. 2025
The annual hand-wringing around whether New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone should be fired is already under way, but that won’t be decided for weeks as the club’s management takes a breath and grieves the club’s latest playoff exit.

— Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 12 Oct. 2025