Word: Bleed
How to pronounce: bliːd
Verb
Definitions:
1. Lose blood from the body as a result of injury or illness.
Example sentences: "The cut was bleeding steadily"
2. Draw blood from (someone), especially as a once-common method of treatment in medicine.
Example sentences: "He didn't bleed his patients with leeches"
3. Allow (fluid or gas) to escape from a closed system through a valve.
Example sentences: "Open the valves and bleed air from the pump chamber"
4. (of a dye or color) seep into an adjacent color or area.
Example sentences: "I worked loosely with the oils, allowing colors to bleed into one another"
Noun
Definitions:
1. An instance of bleeding.
Example sentences: "A lot of blood was lost from the placental bleed"
2. The escape of fluid or gas from a closed system through a valve.
Example sentences: "The amount of air bleed from the compressor"
3. An instance of printing an illustration, design, or text to the edge of the page.
Example sentences: "It allows printing of a tabloid page with full bleed"
Synonyms:
deplete
exsanguinate
run
ooze
seep
percolate
hemorrhage
trickle
shed blood
play off
hurt
rip off
suffer
beat
sweat
tap
pump
Derivations:
bleeding
bleeder
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Bleed in Other Languages...
Spanish: Sangrado
German: Bluten
French: Saignement
Italian: Sanguinare
Turkish: Kanamak
