bled
ˈbled 
; bleeding
; bleeding
1
a
: to emit or lose blood
b
: to sacrifice one's blood especially in battle
2
: 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
J. B. Judis4
: to give up some constituent (such as sap or dye) by exuding or diffusing it
5
a
: to pay out or give money
b
: to have money extorted
6
: to be printed so as to run off one or more edges of the page after trimming
1
: to remove or draw blood from
2
: to get or extort money from especially over a prolonged period
3
: 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
Alex Roland5
: to cause (something, such as a printed illustration) to bleed
1
: printed matter (such as an illustration) that bleeds
also
: the part of a bleed trimmed off
2
: the escape of blood from vessels : hemorrhage
Synonyms
Examples of bleed in a Sentence
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.
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Kc Baker, People.com, 4 Nov. 2024
The 12-year-old suffered a head injury, with bleeding on the brain, CNN affiliate WABC reported.
—Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN, 2 Nov. 2024
Brandon Batchelor, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
Patrick had to be checked for a brain bleed and had a breathing tube put in, but the fact that more time wasn’t needed for CPR was a good thing, said Dr. Amged Abdelaziz, an interventional cardiologist who had been on-call that weekend for the DMC.
—Darcie Moran, Detroit Free Press, 25 Oct. 2024
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Verb
The man, who was bleeding heavily from his right leg and other parts of his body, said that he had been jumped on the beach by two people, later identified as Streeter and Cagle, the affidavit alleges.
—Kc Baker, People.com, 4 Nov. 2024
The 12-year-old suffered a head injury, with bleeding on the brain, CNN affiliate WABC reported.
—Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN, 2 Nov. 2024
Noun
All said and done, the right system will empower companies to prevent asset bleed and loss while safeguarding IP and easing employee offboarding.
—Brandon Batchelor, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
Patrick had to be checked for a brain bleed and had a breathing tube put in, but the fact that more time wasn’t needed for CPR was a good thing, said Dr. Amged Abdelaziz, an interventional cardiologist who had been on-call that weekend for the DMC.
—Darcie Moran, Detroit Free Press, 25 Oct. 2024
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“Bleed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bleed. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.
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bleed
1 of 2 verb
bled
ˈbled
; bleeding
; bleeding
1
: to emit or lose blood
hemophiliacs often bleed severely from the slightest scratch
2
: to escape by oozing or flowing (as from a wound)
: to remove or draw blood from
bleed
2 of 2 noun
: the escape of blood from vessels : hemorrhage
a massive gastrointestinal bleed
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