bleed

Meaning

Verb

1. To shed blood through an injured blood vessel.
2. To let or draw blood from.
3. To take large amounts of money from.
4. To steadily lose (something vital).
5. To spread from the intended location and stain the surrounding cloth or paper.
6. To remove air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.
7. To tap off high-pressure gas (usually air) from a system that produces high-pressure gas primarily for another purpose.
8. (obsolete) To bleed on; to make bloody.
9. To show one's group loyalty by showing (its associated color) in one's blood.
10. To lose sap, gum, or juice.
11. To issue forth, or drop, like blood from an incision.
12. To destroy the environment where another phonological rule would have applied.
13. To (cause to) extend to the edge of the page, without leaving any margin.
14. To lose money.

Noun

1. An incident of bleeding, as in haemophilia.
2. A system for tapping hot, high-pressure air from a gas turbine engine for purposes such as cabin pressurization and airframe anti-icing.
3. 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).
4. The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
5. The removal of air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.
6. The phenomenon of in-character feelings affecting a player's feelings or actions outside of the game.

Synonyms

menstruate

bloodletting

hemorrhage

ooze

blootletting

leak

shed blood

leech

let blood

drain

cup

phlebotomize

collect

run

blood

🩸

spill

leak out

phlebotomise

escape

oozing

pluck

pour out

pull

running off

sap

scarify

spill the beans

aerate

suck out

sweat

😓

tap

tear

unloading

well out

deplumate

take in water

deaerate

exfiltrate

haemorrhagia

water

🚰

dry up deplete

de-aerate

venesect

bleed-off

flow as blood

let out blood

bleeding-out

pollution discharge

transudation seeping

stream

bleeding

🩸

bleed to death

bloody

🩸

blowdown

blow off

deplume

displume

drip

effuse

exploit

extort

flow

gush out

haemorrhage

hurt

leakage

leaking

milk

🥛

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbliːd/

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”).