bleed
verb
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Definition of bleed
(Entry 1 of 2)
1a
: 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
3a
: 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
4
: to give up some constituent (such as sap or dye) by exuding or diffusing it
5a
: 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)
4a
: 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
5
: to cause (something, such as a printed illustration) to bleed
bleed white
: to drain of blood or resources
bleed
nounDefinition of bleed (Entry 2 of 2)
2
: the escape of blood from vessels : hemorrhage
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Synonyms for bleed
Synonyms: Verb
agonize, anguish, grieve, hurt, mourn, sorrow, suffer
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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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Harris was shot at least three times and was left to bleed out, Fowler said. — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, "Teen ran out with a $2 beer. Store clerk followed him and shot him dead," 17 Aug. 2019 Harris was shot at least three times and was left to bleed out, Fowler said. — Madeline Holcombe, CNN, "Teen ran out with a $2 beer. Memphis store clerk followed him and shot him dead," 17 Aug. 2019 The bleeding hearts pretty much have gone the way of the Romanovs and bled out. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "Column: Paying college athletes would shortchange smaller programs," 10 Aug. 2019 An autopsy found Wippel bled out from a stomach ulcer. — oregonlive.com, "Two Jefferson County jail deputies acquitted in inmate’s death file suit, alleging malicious prosecution," 26 July 2019 And teach them how to not bleed out, how to stop blood flow from gunshot wounds. — Tanya A. Christian, Essence, "Rapper Vic Mensa Is Training Chicago Students To Be Street Medics," 2 July 2019 But 86 cuts, many deep, caused Johnson to bleed out. — Rafael Olmeda, sun-sentinel.com, "Jury to weigh death for killer of Oakland Park Taco Bell manager," 24 June 2019 Mattos says the purpose is to induce vasoconstriction—a tightening of the blood vessels—to keep from bleeding out. — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, "8 Essential Tips from 'Arctic,' the Best Survival Movie in Years," 1 Feb. 2019 The controversial compact is the latest step in a monthslong funding battle for UA that bled beyond the start of the fiscal year on July 1. — Tegan Hanlon, Anchorage Daily News, "Gov. Dunleavy and a key University of Alaska leader signed a 3-year compact. What does it mean, and what happens now?," 16 Aug. 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
Trauma, badly forgotten, bleeds into lives that had nothing to do with it. — Christian Wiman, WSJ, "‘A Primer for Forgetting’ Review: The Past Need Not Be Prologue," 21 June 2019 The victim, whose name was withheld, was taken to a hospital for treatment of major head trauma, including a brain bleed and a fractured vertebrae, according to police. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "Police seek tips about group of men who beat, robbed man in Kearny Mesa," 10 July 2019 Rather than witness the slow bleed of the residential tax base in its aging western suburbs, the authority wants to spark reinvestment. — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, "Lake County Port Authority remodels 1950s bungalow to spur reinvestment in aging postwar subdivisions," 30 June 2019 In response, one of the men grabbed a nearby metal stanchion pole and hit the bouncer in the head, fracturing his skull and causing a brain bleed, police said. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "SDPD seeks help to identify suspect in Pacific Beach bouncer assault," 11 July 2019 In 2008, during a preseason scrimmage for Buckingham Browne & Nichols, his high school football team, then 16-year-old Zach McLeod suffered a blow to the head that caused an acute internal brain bleed. — Nora Mcgreevy, BostonGlobe.com, "After son’s brain injury, Harvard chaplains Pat and Tammy McLeod trace the evolution of grief, gratitude and belief," 8 July 2019 Officers responded to a child abuse call at Phoenix Children's Hospital where the girl was brought in experiencing a brain bleed, a rib fracture and a wound inside of her throat, the report said. — Molly Hudson, azcentral, "Phoenix man suspected of child abuse after injuries found on his 5-month-old daughter," 3 July 2019 Harmeet Dhillon, a lawyer and spokeswoman for Ngo, and a Republican national committeewoman from California, told the Daily Caller, a conservative publication, that Ngo was admitted to the hospital overnight for a brain bleed. — Dallas News, "Ted Cruz demands federal inquiry of Portland mayor after Antifa attack on conservative journalist," 1 July 2019 Studies are testing algorithms to read x-rays, detect brain bleeds, pinpoint tumors, and more. — Jennifer Couzin-frankel, Science | AAAS, "Artificial intelligence could revolutionize medical care. But don’t trust it to read your x-ray just yet," 17 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'bleed.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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bleed
verb
English Language Learners Definition of bleed
: to lose or release blood because of a cut, injury, etc.
: to remove blood from (a person) as part of a medical procedure that was done in past times