to lose blood from the vascular system, either internally into the body or externally through a natural orifice or break in the skin: to bleed from the mouth.
2.
(of injured tissue, excrescences, etc.) to exude blood: a wart that is bleeding.
3.
(of a plant) to exude sap, resin, etc., from a wound.
4.
(of dye or paint) to run or become diffused: All the colors bled when the dress was washed.
5.
(of a liquid) to ooze or flow out.
6.
to feel pity, sorrow, or anguish: My heart bleeds for you. A nation bleeds for its dead heroes.
7.
to suffer wounds or death, as in battle: The soldiers bled for the cause.
8.
(of a broadcast signal) to interfere with another signal: CB transmissions bleeding over into walkie-talkies.
9.
Printing. (of printed matter) to run off the edges of a page, either by design or through mutilation caused by too close trimming.
10.
Slang. to pay out money, as when overcharged or threatened with extortion.
11.
Metallurgy. (of a cooling ingot or casting) to have molten metal force its way through the solidified exterior because of internal gas pressure.
–verb (used with object)
12.
to cause to lose blood, esp. surgically: Doctors no longer bleed their patients to reduce fever.
13.
to lose or emit (blood or sap).
14.
to drain or draw sap, water, electricity, etc., from (something): to bleed a pipeline of excess air.
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to remove trapped air from (as an automotive brake system) by opening a bleeder valve.
16.
to obtain an excessive amount from; extort money from.
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Printing.
a.
to permit (printed illustrations or ornamentation) to run off the page or sheet.
b.
to trim the margin of (a book or sheet) so closely as to mutilate the text or illustration.
–noun
18.
Printing.
a.
a sheet or page margin trimmed so as to mutilate the text or illustration.
b.
a part thus trimmed off.
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Medicine/Medical. an instance of bleeding; hemorrhage: an intracranial bleed.
–adjective
20.
Printing. characterized by bleeding: a bleed page.
—Verb phrase
21.
bleed off, to draw or extract: to bleed off sap from a maple tree; to bleed off static electricity.
To feel sympathetic grief or anguish: My heart bleeds for the victims of the air crash.
To exude a fluid such as sap.
To pay out money, especially an exorbitant amount.
To run together or be diffused, as dyes in wet cloth.
To undergo or be subject to such a diffusion of color: The madras skirt bled when it was first washed.
To show through a layer of paint, as a stain or resin in wood.
To be printed so as to go off the edge or edges of a page after trimming.
v.
tr.
To take or remove blood from.
To extract sap or juice from.
To draw liquid or gaseous contents from; drain.
To draw off (liquid or gaseous matter) from a container.
To obtain money from, especially by improper means.
To drain of all valuable resources: "Politicians . . . never stop inventing illicit enterprises of government that bleed the national economy"(David A. Stockman).
To cause (an illustration, for example) to bleed.
To trim (a page, for example) so closely as to mutilate the printed or illustrative matter.
To draw liquid or gaseous contents from; drain.
To draw off (liquid or gaseous matter) from a container.
To obtain money from, especially by improper means.
To drain of all valuable resources: "Politicians . . . never stop inventing illicit enterprises of government that bleed the national economy"(David A. Stockman).
To cause (an illustration, for example) to bleed.
To trim (a page, for example) so closely as to mutilate the printed or illustrative matter.
To obtain money from, especially by improper means.
To drain of all valuable resources: "Politicians . . . never stop inventing illicit enterprises of government that bleed the national economy"(David A. Stockman).
To cause (an illustration, for example) to bleed.
To trim (a page, for example) so closely as to mutilate the printed or illustrative matter.
To cause (an illustration, for example) to bleed.
To trim (a page, for example) so closely as to mutilate the printed or illustrative matter.
n.
An instance of bleeding.
Illustrative matter that bleeds.
A page trimmed so as to bleed.
The part of the page that is trimmed off.
Phrasal Verb(s): bleed off Aerospace To decrease: "Mike reared the chopper almost vertical to bleed off airspeed"(Robert Coram).
[Middle English bleden, from Old English blēdan; see bhel-3 in Indo-European roots.]
O.E. bledan, from P.Gmc. *blothjan "emit blood" (cf. O.N. blæða, Ger. bluten), from *blotham "blood" (see blood). Bleeding heart in the sense of "person excessively sympathetic" (esp. toward those the writer deems not to deserve it) is first attested 1958 according to OED, but said by many to have been popularized with ref. to liberals (esp. Eleanor Roosevelt) in 1930s by newspaper columnist Westbrook Pegler (1894-1969), though quotations are wanting. Bleeding in a fig. sense of "generous" is from late 16c., but the exact image here may be of the "bleeding heart of Jesus."
Bleed\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bled; p. pr. & vb. n. Bleeding.] [OE. bleden, AS. bl?dan, fr. bl?d blood; akin to Sw. bl["o]da, Dan. bl["o]de, D. bloeden, G. bluten. See Blood.]1. To emit blood; to lose blood; to run with blood, by whatever means; as, the arm bleeds; the wound bled freely; to bleed at the nose. 2. To withdraw blood from the body; to let blood; as, Dr. A. bleeds in fevers. 3. To lose or shed one's blood, as in case of a violent death or severe wounds; to die by violence. "C[ae]sar must bleed." --Shak. The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day. --Pope. 4. To issue forth, or drop, as blood from an incision. For me the balm shall bleed. --Pope. 5. To lose sap, gum, or juice; as, a tree or a vine bleeds when tapped or wounded. 6. To pay or lose money; to have money drawn or extorted; as, to bleed freely for a cause. [Colloq.] To make the heart bleed, to cause extreme pain, as from sympathy or pity.
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