bleed

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verb

ˈblēd

bled ˈbled

; bleeding

Synonyms of bleed next

intransitive verb

: to emit or lose blood

: to sacrifice one's blood especially in battle

: to feel anguish, pain, or sympathy

a heart that bleeds at a friend's misfortune

: to escape by oozing or flowing (as from a wound)

: to spread into or through something gradually : seep

foreign policy bleeds into economic policy—

J. B. Judis

: to give up some constituent (such as sap or dye) by exuding or diffusing it

: to pay out or give money

: to have money extorted

: to be printed so as to run off one or more edges of the page after trimming

transitive verb

: to remove or draw blood from

: to get or extort money from especially over a prolonged period

: to draw sap from (a tree)

: to extract or let out some or all of a contained substance from

bleed a brake line

: to extract or cause to escape from a container

: to diminish gradually

—usually used with off

a pilot bleeding off airspeed

: to lose rapidly and uncontrollably

the company was bleeding money

: sap

cost overruns … bleed other programs—

Alex Roland

: to cause (something, such as a printed illustration) to bleed

bleed

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noun

: printed matter (such as an illustration) that bleeds

also : the part of a bleed trimmed off

: the escape of blood from vessels : hemorrhage

Phrases

bleed white

: to drain of blood or resources

Example Sentences

Verb She was bleeding from the face and hands. Doctors used to bleed their patients in an effort to cure them. We bled air from the tank. You'll need to bleed the car's brake lines.

Recent Examples on the Web

Verb

Slok is concerned that even more small companies will start to bleed red ink if the economy enters another downturn. —

Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 26 Jan. 2023 The doctors cut the straw in half, and the tortoise starts to bleed. —

Hazlitt, 15 Sep. 2022 Medium Saturday is a transition day, hopefully, as drier air should start to bleed into the area. —

David Streit, Washington Post, 7 July 2022 If Collins can't get that fixed by next year, the message board complaints will start to bleed into administrative intervention sooner rather than later. —

Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2021 His gums started to bleed and his symptoms mimicked those of British sailors suffering from scurvy. —

Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 14 Oct. 2021 The baby boy was hit in the lip, which started to bleed. —

Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 3 May 2021 However, the injury progressively got worse, leading him to bleed out and die. —

Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 24 Feb. 2023 The third one in particular was a crusher, coming with less than 5:00 to play around midfield after a Clark Phillips III interception of Bo Nix gave the Utes the ball back after Oregon appeared ready to bleed the clock out with a three-point lead. —

Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Nov. 2022

Noun

Ennis was hospitalized with a massive brain bleed and died two weeks later. —

USA Today, 22 Nov. 2022 Dustyn Matlock, a Portland police recruit, suffered a brain bleed, a fractured vertebra, an orbital fracture and a broken wrist. —

oregonlive, 22 July 2021 The 48-year-old woman suffered a brain bleed, broken ribs, black eyes, facial swelling and heavy bruising and cuts over her entire body, said Gretna Police Chief Arthur Lawson. —

Michelle Hunter | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 1 Feb. 2021 Above all, the panels move briskly, full of big movement and emotional pacing, including the clever use of full-bleed pages, and storytelling that zooms in and out of modern Egyptian history. —

Jonathan Guyer, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2023 Think of watching a concert from the front row instead of the nose-bleed section. —

April Reese, Discover Magazine, 1 Aug. 2014 For example, if the bleed had continued oozing, becoming large enough to push part of her brain out of her skull. —

Eli Cahan, The New Republic, 17 Jan. 2023 An expensive foray into consumer banking and the subsequent retreat along with spending on technology and integrating operations have contributed to the cost bleed this year. —

Sridhar Natarajan, Fortune, 29 Dec. 2022 The investigator had concluded that the bleed was related to the drug, but the company pointed to other possible factors. —

Jen Christensen, CNN, 28 Oct. 2022 See More

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