Bleed

Definitions: Bleed

Bleed

Verb

1. Lose blood from one's body.

2. Draw blood; "In the old days, doctors routinely bled patients as part of the treatment".

3. Get or extort (money or other possessions) from someone; "They bled me dry--I have nothing left!".

4. Be diffused; "These dyes and colors are guaranteed not to run".

5. Drain of water; "bleed the radiators".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bleed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Business

Literature

Physics

Publishing & Graphic Arts

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Synonyms: Bleed

Dearness

Overcharge, bleed, fleece, extort.

Expenditure

Verb: expend, spend; run through, get through; pay, disburse; ante, ante up; pony up; open the purse strings, loose the purse strings, untie the purse strings; lay out, shell out, fork out, fork over; bleed; make up a sum, invest, sink money.

Liberality

Verb: be liberal;Adjective: spend freely, bleed freely; shower down upon; open one's purse strings; (disburse); spare no expense, give carte blanche.

Pain

Verb: feel pain, suffer pain, experience pain, undergo pain, bear pain, endure pain; Noun: smart, ache; (physical pain); suffer, bleed, ail; be the victim of.

Hurt the feelings, wound the feelings, grate upon the feelings, grate upon the nerves, jar upon the feelings; wring the heart, pierce the heart, lacerate the heart, break the heart, rend the heart; make the heart bleed; tear the heart strings, rend the heart strings; draw tears from the eyes.

Physical Pain

Verb: feel pain, experience pain, suffer pain, undergo pain. Noun: suffer, ache, smart, bleed; tingle, shoot; twinge, twitch, lancinate; writhe, wince, make a wry face; sit on thorns, sit on pins and needles.

Remedy

Verb: apply a remedy; Noun: doctor, dose, physic, nurse, minister to, attend, dress the wounds, plaster; drain; prevent; relieve; palliate; restore; drench with physic; bleed, cup, let blood; manicure.

Crosswords: Bleed

What are you gonna do, bleed on me? (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman; John Cleese)

I don't get hurt or bleed, hair doesn't muss; it's one of the advantages of being imaginary. (The Purple Rose of Cairo; writing credit: Woody Allen.)

Sometimes I bleed. (The Others; writing credit: Alejandro Amenábar)

You move, you bleed (Girls Just Want to Have Fun; writing credit: Amy Spies)

You could just say Russian names until my ears bleed. (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro)

You bleed you learn (You Learn; performing artist: Alanis Morissette)

You know that I might bleed (Walking On Broken Glass; performing artist: Annie Lennox)

Then you bleed (Bad Medicine; performing artist: Bon Jovi)

For you I bleed myself dry (Yellow; performing artist: Coldplay)

Don't ask me to bleed about it, I need this blood to survive. (Notorious; performing artist: Duran Duran)

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war. (references; author: unknown)

A big black bug bit a big black bear, made the big black bear bleed blood. (references; author: unknown)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Brake Specifications Guide & Brake Bleed Procedures, 2002: Cover 1972-2002 Models (reference)

• Don't Bleed on Me (Ulverscroft General Series) [LARGE PRINT] (reference)

• I Bleed Maroon (reference)

• Let It Bleed (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Bleed (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• 13 Ways To Bleed Onstage [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

• Bleed Me Blue (reference)

• Let It Bleed [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Fargo Electronics 4-Color Ribbon Dye-Sub A/A4 For Pictura Full Bleed 50 Prnts (reference)

• Fargo Electronics Premium Paper Wax Thermal A/A4 For Pictura Full Bleed 50 Sheets (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Ah, yes, we'll just bleed him some more!.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Sometimes tumors in the colon or rectum can bleed. (references)

Sometimes, cysts become infected or suddenly start to bleed. (references)

The cysts bleed into the urinary system, which discolors urine. (references)

Human Rights

Dominican Republic

In Barahona police were described as using a practice called "golpe de pollo" in which they beat a person's ears until they bleed. (references)

Malaysia

For example, in March a truck driver suspected of trafficking drugs told the High Court that he was kicked in the ribs and head by police officers until his eyebrows started to bleed. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "bleed": air bleed ♦ bleed at the nose ♦ bleed away ♦ bleed like a pig ♦ bleed oneself white ♦ bleed smb. ♦ bleed through ♦ bleed to death ♦ bleed white ♦ make bleed ♦ To make the heart bleed. Additional references.

Beginning with "bleed": bleed-air, bleed-air ducting.

Ending with "bleed": nose-bleed.

Albanian

zhvat (cadge, claw back, coax, devour, extort, filch, fleece, hog, Rob, spoil, squeeze, Winkle, worm, wrest), rrjep (bark, deplume, flay, Peel, pick, soak), më rrjedh gjak, më pikon gjak, i marr gjak. (various references)

Arabic 

‏فصد, ‏نزف دما (bled), ‏تفطر حزنا, ‏تحلب الشجرة, ‏إستدمى, ‏إبتز مالا من, ‏رعف, ‏دفع (actuate, anticipate, boost, carry, crowd, dig, disburse, drive, eject, encourage, flog, galvanize, give, impulse, instigate, jog, jostle, motivate, nuzzle, pay, pay down, payment, plank, press, prompt, propel, propulsion, push, remit, render up, repulsion, roll, rouse, shove, spur, sweep, thrust, thrusting, waft, wheel). (various references)

Bulgarian 

кървя, пускам сок, пускам (admit, cast off, course, discharge, dismiss, drive, drop, float, fly, give off, grow, issue, let, let fall, let go, let loose, mail, play, push out, put forth, put on, put out, release, rip out, run, send forth, slip, start, start up, throw in, turn out, uncork, unhand, unleash), плащам големи суми под натиск. (various references)

Chinese 

出血 (haemorrhage, hemorrhage). (various references)

Czech

odvzdušnit, krvácet (haemorrhage). (various references)

Danish

gaa til kant, aftappe, afblæse. (various references)

Dutch

bloeden (bleeding, colour bleeding), bloed aftappen, aderlaten (bloodletting, blood-letting, phlebotomy). (various references)

Esperanto

sangi, sangellasi. (various references)

Faeroese

bløða. (various references)

Farsi 

خون گرفتن از, خون جاری شدن از, خون امدن از, خون ریختن , اخاذی کردن (Extort). (various references)

Finnish

vuodattaa (pour, shed). (various references)

French

saigner, purger (blow off). (various references)

Frisian

bliede. (various references)

German

bluten (bleeding, colour bleeding, creeping, spreading, to bleed), schröpfen (cup, cupping, fleece, rip off, soak). (various references)

Greek 

ματώνω, αιμορραγώ (hemorrhage). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"קיז �"ם (draw blood), ל�"מום, ל�"מם. (various references)

Hungarian

víztelenítés (dehydratation, dehydration), szivárgás (leak, leakage, ooze, seepage, trickle), nyomatszél sérülése, megcsapolás (tapping). (various references)

Indonesian

bocor (leak, orinate), berdarah (bloody, gory). (various references)

Italian

sanguinare. (various references)

Korean 

�"리�"�. (various references)

Manx

roie folley (bleeding, haemorrhage), lhiggey fuill (bleeding). (various references)

Norwegian

blø. (various references)

Papiamen

sangra. (various references)

Pig Latin

eedblay

Portuguese

sangrar (blood, grooving, let by, phlebotomy, radial plunge cutting, recessing, sap, stick). (various references)

Romanian

stoarce bani (exact, vamp), se jertfi pentru, scurge banii (drain), sângera, pierde bani, lua sânge de la (blood), fi stors de bani, fi rãnit (catch a packet), a-şi da sângele la, însângera. (various references)

Russian 

кровоточить (bled). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

krvariti. (various references)

Spanish

sangrar (blood, haemorrhage, hemorrhage, indent, inset, phlebotomize, tap). (various references)

Swedish

blöda, åderlåta (milk, phlebotomize). (various references)

Thai

เลือ�"ออก, นำเงินจำนวนมากไปใช้อย่างไม่ถูกต้อง, ถ่ายเลือ�". (various references)

Turkish

boşaltmak (clean, clean out, clear, clear out, close out, debus, deplenish, deplete, discharge, disgorge, dismantle, drain, drain away, drain off, draw off, drop off, dump, ejaculate, empty, evacuate, excrete, exhaust, let off, pour, pour from, pour out of, quit, strip, teem, tip, tip out, tip over, turn out, unlade, unload, unpack, vacate, void), para sızdırmak (blackmail, bleed smb., clean out, gouge, shake down, squeeze, tap, touch), kanamak, kanını emmek, kan kaybetmek, kan almak, kan ağlamak, akmak (course, discharge, drain, drain away, drain off, fall into, flow, issue, leak, pour, pour itself, pour out, run, run down, run out, sluice, splutter, stream, well forth, well out, well up). (various references)

Turkmen 

ganjarmak. (various references)

Ukranian 

сочитися (dribble, ooze), кровоточити, пускати кров (blood), проливати кров. (various references)

Welsh

gwaedu. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "bleed": bleeder, bleeders, bleeding, bleedings, bleeds. (additional references)

Words ending with "bleed": nosebleed. (additional references)

Words containing "bleed": nosebleeds. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Bleed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aleed, beed, beled, belid, belved, bleaf, blee, bleef, bleeg, bleek, blees, Bleet, bleeu, bleev, bleh, blej, Bleuel, bleuet, blev, blevey, blewd, blewe, blexed, bley, blide, blied, bloed, blude, bly, blyde, blyed, kleed. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: bedel.

-1 letter: bled, dele.

-2 letters: bed, bee, bel, deb, dee, del, eel, eld, led, lee.

-3 letters: be, de, ed, el.

+1 letter: beadle, bedell, bedels, beheld, belied, belled, belted, bleeds, blende, djebel, edible.

+2 letters: beadles, bedells, bedevil, bedless, bedlike, beetled, belaced, belated, belayed, belched, beldame, bellied, beloved, beveled, bielded, bleared, bleated, bleeder, bleeped, blended, blender, blendes, blessed, boweled, debacle, decibel, djebels, dyeable, edibles, elbowed, enabled, labeled, libeled, pebbled, reblend, trebled, umbeled.

+3 letters: abseiled, albedoes, barreled, beadlike, becalmed, becudgel, bedabble, bedazzle, beddable, bedevils, bedimple, bedplate, bedrivel, beelined, befleaed, befooled, befouled, befuddle, begalled, begirdle, beguiled, begulfed, beholden, beholder, behowled, beladied, beladies, belauded, beldames, beleaped, belfried, believed, bellowed, belonged, beloveds, bemuddle, bendable, beslaved, beslimed, besmiled, beuncled, bevelled, bewailed, bewilder, billeted, bleached, bleeders, bleeding, blenched, blenders, bluehead, blueweed, bowelled, bulleted, bullweed, busheled, corbeled, credible, dateable, debacles, debtless, decibels, deniable, deverbal, editable, educable, educible, elidible, embalmed, emblazed, emblemed, embolden, englobed, ennobled, erodible, evadable, evadible, feedable, flambeed, gabelled, inedible, labelled, leeboard, lendable, libelled, limbered, linebred, lumbered, mendable, obelised, obelized, readable, rebeldom, rebelled, rebilled, reblends, reboiled, redouble, rendible, rideable, sendable, shedable, tableted, trembled, umbelled, unbelted, unedible, vendable, vendible, wadeable, weldable.

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