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 losers are the automakers still leaving accessories to the dealer, where the margin quietly bleeds away. — Sarwant Singh, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026 If your patriotic heart bleeds red, white, and blue all year long, there's no better way to show it than with these captions just made for the Fourth of July. — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 2 July 2026 Too often, work bleeds into home life. — Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 29 June 2026 The slow-burn thriller is partially based on a 17th century ballad in which the heroic outlaw’s cousin, a malevolent prioress, bleeds the older, ailing Robin to death under the guise of the ancient medical treatment known as bloodletting. — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 22 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

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As Wabasha grieves, Hust said coming together in prayer and support is the first step in what will be a long healing process.

— Ashley Grams, CBS News, 13 July 2026
Each person grieves differently.

— Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 14 June 2026

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As a result, food inflation squeezes the amount of money people have left over to buy things like Levi's jeans and plane tickets, which brings us to our next earnings preview.

— Zev Fima,Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 5 July 2026
One of our favorite budget models on the market right now is HP's OmniBook X Flip, which squeezes every bit of performance out of its components to deliver capable everyday productivity performance in a good-looking package.

— K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 3 July 2026

Definition of squeezes

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Air flows clockwise around these domes, but until now, none of them have been in quite the right spot to drag Canadian smoke south.

— Dakota Smith, CNN Money, 14 July 2026
The Madison River originates inside Yellowstone National Park and flows 183 miles north through southwest Montana, flanked by the Madison Range, the Gravelly Mountains, and the Tobacco Root Mountains.

— Condé Nast Traveler, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 July 2026

Definition of flows

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At Royal Ascot in June, Camilla closed the meeting in sand suede Eliot Zed pumps with a bespoke honey heel after three consecutive days in Chanel.

— Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 9 July 2026
This places extra strain on the heart, which pumps harder to keep up with demand.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 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