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bleed

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bleed  (bld)
v. bled (bld), bleed·ing, bleeds
v.intr.
1. To emit or lose blood.
2. To be wounded, especially in battle.
3. To feel sympathetic grief or anguish: My heart bleeds for the victims of the air crash.
4. To exude a fluid such as sap.
5. To pay out money, especially an exorbitant amount.
6.
a. To run together or be diffused, as dyes in wet cloth.
b. To undergo or be subject to such a diffusion of color: The madras skirt bled when it was first washed.
7. To show through a layer of paint, as a stain or resin in wood.
8. To be printed so as to go off the edge or edges of a page after trimming.
v.tr.
1.
a. To take or remove blood from.
b. To extract sap or juice from.
2.
a. To draw liquid or gaseous contents from; drain.
b. To draw off (liquid or gaseous matter) from a container.
3.
a. To obtain money from, especially by improper means.
b. To drain of all valuable resources: "Politicians . . . never stop inventing illicit enterprises of government that bleed the national economy" David A. Stockman.
4.
a. To cause (an illustration, for example) to bleed.
b. To trim (a page, for example) so closely as to mutilate the printed or illustrative matter.
n.
1. An instance of bleeding.
2. Illustrative matter that bleeds.
3.
a. A page trimmed so as to bleed.
b. The part of the page that is trimmed off.
Phrasal Verb:
bleed off
Aerospace To decrease: "Mike reared the chopper almost vertical to bleed off airspeed" Robert Coram.

[Middle English bleden, from Old English bldan; see bhel-3 in Indo-European roots.]

bleed
Verb
[bleeding, bled]
1. to lose or emit blood
2. to remove or draw blood from (a person or animal)
3. (of plants) to exude (sap or resin), esp. from a cut
4. Informal to obtain money, etc., from (someone), esp. by extortion
5. to draw liquid or gas from (a container or enclosed system)
6. my heart bleeds for you I am sorry for you: often used ironically [Old English blēdan]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Verb1.bleed - lose blood from one's body
menstruate, flow - undergo menstruation; "She started menstruating at the age of 11"
eject, expel, release, exhaust, discharge - eliminate (a substance); "combustion products are exhausted in the engine"; "the plant releases a gas"
2.bleed - draw blood; "In the old days, doctors routinely bled patients as part of the treatment"
practice of medicine, medicine - the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries; "he studied medicine at Harvard"
care for, treat - provide treatment for; "The doctor treated my broken leg"; "The nurses cared for the bomb victims"; "The patient must be treated right away or she will die"; "Treat the infection with antibiotics"
3.bleed - get or extort (money or other possessions) from someone; "They bled me dry--I have nothing left!"
extort, gouge, wring, rack, squeeze - obtain by coercion or intimidation; "They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss"; "They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him"
4.bleed - be diffused; "These dyes and colors are guaranteed not to run"
melt, melt down, run - reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating; "melt butter"; "melt down gold"; "The wax melted in the sun"
diffuse, fan out, spread out, spread - move outward; "The soldiers fanned out"
crock - release color when rubbed, of badly dyed fabric
5.bleed - drain of liquid or steam; "bleed the radiators"; "the mechanic bled the engine"
empty - make void or empty of contents; "Empty the box"; "The alarm emptied the building"

bleed
verb 1. lose blood, flow, weep, trickle, gush, exude, spurt, shed blood
verb 3. (Informal) extort, milk, squeeze, drain, exhaust, fleece
Translations
Spanish bleed [pt bled, pp ] [bliːd, blɛd] vtsangrar [+ brakes, radiator]; desaguar
visangrar

French bleed [bled , pt, pp ] [bliːd, blɛd] vtsaigner [+ brakes, radiator]; purger
visaigner;
my nose is bleeding → je saigne du nez

German bleed [bliːd] [bled , pt, pp ] vibluten;
(colour) → auslaufen
vt (brakes, radiator) → entlüften;
my nose is bleeding → ich habe Nasenbluten

Italian bleed [pt bled, pp ] [bliːd, blɛd] vtdissanguare [+ brakes, radiator]; spurgare
visanguinare;
my nose is bleeding → mi viene fuori sangue dal naso

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The surgeon assented to bleed her upon these conditions, and then proceeded to his operation, which he performed with as much dexterity as he had promised; and with as much quickness: for he took but little blood from her, saying, it was much safer to bleed again and again, than to take away too much at once.
Whether any of the relatives of the seamen whose names appeared there were now among the congregation, I knew not; but so many are the unrecorded accidents in the fishery, and so plainly did several women present wear the countenance if not the trappings of some unceasing grief, that I feel sure that here before me were assembled those, in whose unhealing hearts the sight of those bleak tablets sympathetically caused the old wounds to bleed afresh.
For in the flaxen lilies' shade It like a bank of lilies laid; Upon the roses it would feed Until its lips even seemed to bleed, And then to me 'twould boldly trip, And print those roses on my lip, But all its chief delight was still With roses thus itself to fill, And its pure virgin limbs to fold In whitest sheets of lilies cold.
 
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