Definitions for bleed

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IPA: /blid/

Bleed is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 46 anagrams from letters in bleed (bdeel).

Definitions for bleed

noun

1. Printing. a sheet or page margin trimmed so as to mutilate the text or illustration. a part thus trimmed off.
2. Medicine/Medical. an instance of bleeding; hemorrhage:

Idioms

1. bleed white. white (def 41).

adjective

1. Printing. characterized by bleeding:

Verb phrases

1. bleed off, to draw or extract:

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to lose blood, especially surgically:
2. to lose or emit (blood or sap).
3. to drain or draw sap, water, electricity, etc., from (something):
4. to remove trapped air from (as an automotive brake system) by opening a bleeder valve.
5. to obtain an excessive amount from; extort money from.
6. Printing. to permit (printed illustrations or ornamentation) to run off the page or sheet. to trim the margin of (a book or sheet) so closely as to mutilate the text or illustration.

verb (used without object)

1. to lose blood from the vascular system, either internally into the body or externally through a natural orifice or break in the skin:
2. (of injured tissue, excrescences, etc.) to exude blood:
3. (of a plant) to exude sap, resin, etc., from a wound.
4. (of dye or paint) to run or become diffused:
5. (of a liquid) to ooze or flow out.
6. to feel pity, sorrow, or anguish:
7. to suffer wounds or death, as in battle:
8. (of a broadcast signal) to interfere with another signal:
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.

Origin of bleed

before 1000; Middle English bleden, Old English blēdan, derivative of blōd blood

Examples for bleed

If Hermione could have heard them her torn heart might perhaps have ceased to bleed.

Those prognosticators had reason to believe the 10,000 lakes could bleed a little red into Washington.

But she continued to bleed, and the staff became all the more alarmed.

For instance, when a couple is having trouble, the tension and hostility can bleed into BDSM scenes.

The force of the two reacting spreads the foam through the chest cavity, hardening to apply pressure to any bleed sites.

He saw he was due to bleed to death and he took a shorter way!

Don't let me count three till you're after me, or I'll bleed ye!

By mistake he hit himself in the nose and it began to bleed.

And now, if you don't want me to bleed to death get me out of this slop, and--yes,--easy!

Spain was hammered by the financial crisis and continues to bleed.