bleed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbliːd/
rhymes: -iːd
Forms: form: bleeds
form: bleeding
form: bled
form: bled
Etymology: From Middle English bleden, from Old English blēdan (“to bleed”), from Proto-West Germanic *blōdijan, from Proto-Germanic *blōþijaną (“to bleed”), from *blōþą (“blood”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots blede, bleid (“to bleed”), Saterland Frisian bläide (“to bleed”), West Frisian bliede (“to bleed”), Dutch bloeden (“to bleed”), Low German blöden (“to bleed”), German bluten (“to bleed”), Danish bløde (“to bleed”), Swedish blöda (“to bleed”).
Senses: examples: text: If her nose bleeds, try to use ice.
qualifier: animal or body part
glosses: To shed blood through an injured blood vessel.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: "What did they die of?" I asked.
"Fevers. The doctor came and bled them and purged them, but they still died."
"He bled and purged babies?"
"They were two and three. He said it would break the fever. And it did. But they ... they died anyway."
ref: 1979, Octavia E. Butler, Kindred, Beacon Press (2024), page 239:
glosses: To let or draw blood from.
glosses: To take large amounts of money from.
examples: text: The company was bleeding talent.
glosses: To steadily lose (something vital).
examples: text: Ink traps counteract bleeding.
text: The ink bled only a little; if one raised the index card to one’s eye, it was possible to see the microscopic wisps and flicks seep out from the intended lines and curves out into the paper’s grain.
ref: 2020, Eley Williams, The Liarʼs Dictionary, William Heinemann, page 201:
glosses: To spread from the intended location and stain the surrounding cloth or paper.
raw_tags: of an ink or dye
glosses: To remove air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.
examples: text: At low engine speeds, valves open to bleed some of the highly-compressed air from the later compressor stages, helping to prevent engine surging.
text: High-pressure air bled from the APU is used to spin up the engines and run the APU generator and hydraulic pump, and can also be used to pressurise the cabin if necessary.
glosses: To tap off high-pressure gas (usually air) from a system that produces high-pressure gas primarily for another purpose.
glosses: To bleed on; to make bloody.
examples: text: He was a devoted Vikings fan: he bled purple.
glosses: To show one's group loyalty by showing (its associated color) in one's blood.
examples: text: A tree or a vine bleeds when tapped or wounded.
glosses: To lose sap, gum, or juice.
examples: text: For me the balm shall bleed.
ref: 1713, [Alexander] Pope, Windsor-Forest. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:
glosses: To issue forth, or drop, like blood from an incision.
examples: text: Labialization bleeds palatalization.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
antonyms: feed
glosses: To destroy the environment where another phonological rule would have applied.
raw_tags: of a phonological rule
examples: text: Full-page and double-page colour advertisements in the Sunday colour magazines usually bleed off the page' (or are 'bled to the margin'), […]
ref: 1998, Macmillan Dictionary of Marketing and Advertising, page 35:
text: Too, bleeding beyond margins provides editors with several picas of space for more layout.
ref: 2004, Dorothy A. Bowles, Diane L. Borden, Creative Editing, page 361:
topics: advertising
business
marketing
media
publishing
glosses: To (cause to) extend to the edge of the page, without leaving any margin.
examples: text: Most of the sectors are bleeding, particularly the resources sector.
topics: business
finance
glosses: To lose money.
Derived terms: bebleed
bleedable
bleed dry
bleeder
bleed for
bleed for someone
bleeding edge
bleeding heart
bleed like a pig
bleed like a stuck hog
bleed like a stuck pig
bleed out
bleed red ink
bleed the lizard
bleed the monkey
bleed white
brain bleed
counterbleed
crossbleed start
forbleed
Heartbleed
if it bleeds, it leads
I'm bleeding
macrobleed
microbleed
nosebleed
outbleed
overbleed
rebleed
we all bleed red
Related terms: bless
blessing
blood
bloody