bleed
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: advertising
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
broadcasting
business
engineering
finance
human-sciences
linguistics
marketing
media
natural-sciences
phonology
physical-sciences
printing
publishing
sciences
television
Etymology: From Middle English bleden, from Old English blēdan (“to bleed”), from Proto-West Germanic *blōdijan, from Proto-Germanic *blōdijaną (“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”).
Inflected forms:
form: bleeds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bleeding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bleeds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To shed blood through an injured blood vessel.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: If her nose bleeds, try to use ice.
gloss: To menstruate.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: You haven't bled. It's been over a month since your arrival, and you haven't bled.
gloss: To let or draw blood from.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: "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."
gloss: To take large amounts of money from.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To steadily lose (something vital).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The company was bleeding talent.
gloss: To spread from the intended location and stain the surrounding cloth or paper.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Ink traps counteract bleeding.
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.
gloss: To remove air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To tap off high-pressure gas (usually air) from a system that produces high-pressure gas primarily for another purpose.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: At low engine speeds, valves open to bleed some of the highly-compressed air from the later compressor stages, helping to prevent engine surging.
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.
gloss: To bleed on; to make bloody.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To show one's group loyalty by showing (its associated color) in one's blood.
pos: verb
tags: copulative
figuratively
intransitive
examples: He was a devoted Vikings fan: he bled purple.
gloss: To lose sap, gum, or juice.
pos: verb
examples: A tree or a vine bleeds when tapped or wounded.
gloss: To issue forth, or drop, like blood from an incision.
pos: verb
examples: For me the balm shall bleed.
gloss: To destroy the environment where another phonological rule would have applied.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Labialization bleeds palatalization.
gloss: To (cause to) extend to the edge of the page, without leaving any margin.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Full-page and double-page colour advertisements in the Sunday colour magazines usually bleed off the page' (or are 'bled to the margin'), […]
Too, bleeding beyond margins provides editors with several picas of space for more layout.
gloss: To lose money.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Most of the sectors are bleeding, particularly the resources sector.
gloss: An incident of bleeding, as in haemophilia.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A system for tapping hot, high-pressure air from a gas turbine engine for purposes such as cabin pressurization and airframe anti-icing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
plural-normally
uncountable
examples: When taking off at high altitude or at near-maximum weight, the bleeds have to be turned off temporarily, as they decrease engine power somewhat.
gloss: A narrow edge around a page layout, to be printed but cut off afterwards (added to allow for slight misalignment, especially with pictures that should run to the edge of the finished sheet).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A margin left at the edges of a shot to allow for the picture being cropped when it arrives at viewers' screens.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The removal of air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The phenomenon of in-character feelings affecting a player's feelings or actions outside of the game.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Related words: bless
blessing
blood
bloody
Derived words: 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
free bleed
Heartbleed
if it bleeds, it leads
I'm bleeding
macrobleed
microbleed
nosebleed
outbleed
overbleed
rebleed
we all bleed red
bench bleed
bleed air
bleed-edge
bleed edge
bleed hole
bleed-sheet
bleed-through
nose bleed
Translations:
lang: Ainu
word: ケㇺヌ
roman: kemnu
lang: Arabic
word: نَزَفَ
roman: nazafa
lang: Armenian
word: արյունահոսել
roman: aryunahosel
lang: Aromanian
word: sãndzinedz
lang: Aromanian
word: sãndzinedzu
lang: Asturian
word: sangrar
lang: Basque
word: odolustu
lang: Bengali
word: রক্ত ঝরা
roman: rokto jhora
lang: Bengali
word: রক্ত পড়া
roman: rokto poṛa
lang: Bulgarian
word: тече кръв
roman: teče krǎv
lang: Catalan
word: sagnar
lang: Cherokee
word: ᎠᏔᏍᎩᎠ
roman: atasgia
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 流血
roman: lau⁴ hyut³
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 出血
roman: chūxiě
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 流血
roman: liúxuè, liúxiě
lang: Czech
word: krvácet
lang: Danish
word: bløde
lang: Dutch
word: bloeden
lang: Egyptian
word: z:n:f-D26:Z2ss
roman: znf
lang: Esperanto
word: sangi
lang: Faroese
word: bløða
lang: Finnish
word: vuotaa verta
lang: French
word: saigner
lang: Old French
word: saingnier
lang: North Frisian
word: bled
lang: North Frisian
word: blädje
lang: West-Frisian
word: bliede
lang: Friulian
word: sanganâ
lang: Galician
word: sangrar
lang: Georgian
word: სისხლის დენა
roman: sisxlis dena
lang: Georgian
word: სისხლდენა
roman: sisxldena
lang: German
word: bluten
lang: Greek
word: αιμορραγώ
roman: aimorragó
lang: Greek
word: ματώνω
roman: matóno
lang: Haitian Creole
word: senyen
lang: Hebrew
word: דִּימֵּם
roman: dimem
lang: Hindi
word: रक्तस्राव
roman: raktasrāv
lang: White Hmong
word: los tshav
lang: Hungarian
word: vérzik
lang: Icelandic
word: blæða
lang: Ido
word: sangifar
lang: Irish
word: cuir fuil
lang: Italian
word: sanguinare
lang: Japanese
word: 出血する
roman: shukketsu suru
lang: Japanese
word: 血を流す
roman: chi o nagasu
lang: Kazakh
word: қанау
roman: qanau
lang: Khmer
word: ចេញឈាម
roman: jeuñ chīəum
lang: Korean
word: 피를 흘리다
roman: pireul heullida
lang: Kyrgyz
word: каноо
roman: kanoo
lang: Latin
word: sanguinem mittō
lang: Latin
word: sanguinō
lang: Latvian
word: asiņot
lang: Lithuanian
word: kraujuoti
lang: Malayalam
word: ചോരയൊലിക്കുക
roman: cōrayolikkuka
lang: Māori
word: toto
lang: Māori
word: tatao
lang: Mongolian
word: цус алдах
roman: cus aldax
lang: Mongolian
word: цус гоожих
roman: cus goožix
lang: Nepali
word: रक्तस्राव
roman: raktasrāv
lang: Norman
word: sangni
lang: Norwegian
word: blø
lang: Occitan
word: sagnar
lang: Old Norse
word: blǿða
lang: Old Norse
word: blœða
lang: Oromo
word: dhiiguu
lang: Persian
word: خون آمدن
roman: xun âmadan
lang: Polish
word: krwawić
lang: Portuguese
word: sangrar
lang: Portuguese
word: deitar sangue
lang: Romanian
word: sângera
lang: Russian
word: кровоточи́ть
roman: krovotočítʹ
lang: Russian
word: истека́ть кро́вью
roman: istekátʹ króvʹju
lang: Sardinian
word: sambenàre
lang: Sardinian
word: sambenàri
lang: Sardinian
word: sanguinai
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: leig fuil
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: leum
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: крва́рити
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: krváriti
lang: Sicilian
word: sanguniari
lang: Sicilian
word: sanguinari
lang: Slovak
word: krvácať
lang: Slovene
word: krvaveti
lang: Somali
word: dhiigid
lang: Spanish
word: sangrar
lang: Sranan Tongo
word: brudu
lang: Swahili
word: -vuja damu
lang: Swedish
word: blöda
lang: Tagalog
word: dumugo
lang: Tausug
word: dugu
lang: Thai
word: ตกเลือด
roman: dtòk lêuat
lang: Turkish
word: kanamak [-ar]
lang: Ukrainian
word: кровоточи́ти
roman: krovotočýty
lang: Ukrainian
word: крива́вити
roman: kryvávyty
lang: Venetan
word: sanguenar
lang: Vietnamese
word: chảy máu
lang: Vietnamese
word: xuất huyết
lang: Volapük
word: bludön
lang: Walloon
word: sonner
lang: Welsh
word: gwaedu
lang: Zhuang
word: ok lwed
lang: Zhuang
word: lae lwed