Synonyms and Antonyms of bleed
1
to feel deep sadness or mental pain
- her heart bleeds for the homeless people she sees on her way to work
ache, long (for), pine (away), sigh, smart
rack, torment, torture
bemoan, bewail, deplore, lament, rue
bawl, blubber, cry, groan, howl, keen, moan, sob, take on, wail, weep, yammer, yowl
languish
regret
beam, cheer, crow, delight, exult, glory, joy, laugh, ravish, rejoice, triumph
assure, cheer, comfort, commiserate, console, reassure, solace, soothe, sympathize
2
to flow forth slowly through small openings
- pitch was bleeding from cuts in the tree bark
3
to remove (liquid) gradually or completely
- bleed water from the radiators
bathe, douse (also dowse), drench, soak, souse, wash, water, wet
deluge, drown, flood, inundate, overflow
submerge, swamp
4
to rob by the use of trickery or threats
- the confidence men coldheartedly bled the elderly couple of their life savings
beat, bilk, cheat, chisel, chouse, con, cozen, defraud, diddle, do, do in, euchre, fiddle, fleece, flimflam, gaff, gyp, hose [slang], hustle, mulct, nobble [British slang], pluck, ream, rip off, rook, screw, shake down, short, shortchange, skin, skunk, squeeze, stick, stiff, sting, sucker, swindle, thimblerig, victimize
