bleed

[bleed] /blid/
verb (used without object), bled
[bled] /blɛd/ (Show IPA), bleeding.
1.
to lose blood from the vascular system, either internally into the body or externally through a natural orifice or break in the skin:
to bleed from the mouth.
2.
(of injured tissue, excrescences, etc.) to exude blood:
a wart that is bleeding.
3.
(of a plant) to exude sap, resin, etc., from a wound.
4.
(of dye or paint) to run or become diffused:
All the colors bled when the dress was washed.
5.
(of a liquid) to ooze or flow out.
6.
to feel pity, sorrow, or anguish:
My heart bleeds for you. A nation bleeds for its dead heroes.
7.
to suffer wounds or death, as in battle:
The soldiers bled for the cause.
8.
(of a broadcast signal) to interfere with another signal:
CB transmissions bleeding over into walkie-talkies.
9.
Printing. (of printed matter) to run off the edges of a page, either by design or through mutilation caused by too close trimming.
10.
Slang. to pay out money, as when overcharged or threatened with extortion.
11.
Metallurgy. (of a cooling ingot or casting) to have molten metal force its way through the solidified exterior because of internal gas pressure.
verb (used with object), bled
[bled] /blɛd/ (Show IPA), bleeding.
12.
to cause to lose blood, especially surgically:
Doctors no longer bleed their patients to reduce fever.
13.
to lose or emit (blood or sap).
14.
to drain or draw sap, water, electricity, etc., from (something):
to bleed a pipeline of excess air.
15.
to remove trapped air from (as an automotive brake system) by opening a bleeder valve.
16.
to obtain an excessive amount from; extort money from.
17.
Printing.
  1. to permit (printed illustrations or ornamentation) to run off the page or sheet.
  2. to trim the margin of (a book or sheet) so closely as to mutilate the text or illustration.
noun
18.
Printing.
  1. a sheet or page margin trimmed so as to mutilate the text or illustration.
  2. a part thus trimmed off.
19.
Medicine/Medical. an instance of bleeding; hemorrhage:
an intracranial bleed.
adjective
20.
Printing. characterized by bleeding:
a bleed page.
Verb phrases
21.
bleed off, to draw or extract:
to bleed off sap from a maple tree; to bleed off static electricity.
Idioms
22.
bleed white. white (def 41).
Origin
before 1000; Middle English bleden, Old English blēdan, derivative of blōd blood
Related forms
outbleed, verb (used with object), outbled, outbleeding.
unbled, adjective
Can be confused
bled, bleed, blood.
Examples from the web for bled
  • The trees were also bled for their sap, or gum, used as an ingredient in paints and varnishes.
  • As the plane descended to land, cabin pressure would have to be bled off again.
  • Several companies currently run labs where captured crabs are bled of roughly a third of their blood, then sent back into the sea.
  • However, acid rain bled the trees of their pigmentation, turning them ashen grey.
  • The question you have to ask is do want this energy, that will be bled off regardless, to be reused.
  • But out on the land, the population has relentlessly bled away.
  • During the summer monsoon months, overflow channels bled off excess water.
  • The money is available but it is bled out of cities to finance rural pork projects.
  • It's true, and now they don't have any money, and their being bled nonetheless.
  • But some of their themes have bled into mainstream politics.
British Dictionary definitions for bled

bleed

/bliːd/
verb bleeds, bleeding, bled
1.
(intransitive) to lose or emit blood
2.
(transitive) to remove or draw blood from (a person or animal)
3.
(intransitive) to be injured or die, as for a cause or one's country
4.
(of plants) to exude (sap or resin), esp from a cut
5.
(transitive) (informal) to obtain relatively large amounts of money, goods, etc, esp by extortion
6.
(transitive) to draw liquid or gas from (a container or enclosed system): to bleed the hydraulic brakes
7.
(intransitive) (of dye or paint) to run or become mixed, as when wet
8.
to print or be printed so that text, illustrations, etc, run off the trimmed page
9.
(transitive) to trim (the edges of a printed sheet) so closely as to cut off some of the printed matter
10.
(intransitive) (civil engineering, building trades) (of a mixture) to exude (a liquid) during compaction, such as water from cement
11.
bleed someone or something dry, to extort gradually all the resources of a person or thing
12.
one's heart bleeds, used to express sympathetic grief, but often used ironically
noun
13.
(printing)
  1. an illustration or sheet trimmed so that some matter is bled
  2. (as modifier): a bleed page
14.
(printing) the trimmings of a sheet that has been bled
Word Origin
Old English blēdan; see blood
Word Origin and History for bled

past tense and past participle of bleed (v.).

bleed

v.

Old English bledan "to let blood," in Middle English and after, "to let blood from surgically;" also "to emit blood," from Proto-Germanic *blodjan "emit blood" (cf. Old Norse blæða, German bluten), from *bhlo-to- "swell, gush, spurt" (see blood (n.)). Meaning "extort money from" is from 1670s. Of dyes or paints, from 1862. Related: Bled; bleeding.

bled in Medicine

bleed (blēd)
v. bled (blěd), bleed·ing, bleeds

  1. To lose blood as a result of rupture or severance of blood vessels.

  2. To take or remove blood from.

Slang definitions & phrases for bled

bleed

verb

To take someone's money by overcharging or extortion: His creditors bled him to death (1680s+)


Idioms and Phrases with bled

bleed

In addition to the idiom beginning with bleed also see: my heart bleeds for you