Pronunciations (3)
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/ˈbliːd/
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[ˈblɪi̯d]
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ˈbliːd
Verb
To shed blood through an injured blood vessel.
Usage- Intransitive
- of a person
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If her nose bleeds, try to use ice.
To menstruate.
Usage- Intransitive
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You haven't bled. It's been over a month since your arrival, and you haven't bled.
To let or draw blood from.
Usage- Transitive
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"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."
To take large amounts of money from.
Usage- Transitive
To steadily lose (something vital).
Usage- Transitive
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The company was bleeding talent.
To spread from the intended location and stain the surrounding cloth or paper.
Usage- Intransitive
- of an ink or dye
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Ink traps counteract bleeding.
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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.
To remove air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.
Usage- Transitive
To tap off high-pressure gas (usually air) from a system that produces high-pressure gas primarily for another purpose.
Usage- Transitive
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At low engine speeds, valves open to bleed some of the highly-compressed air from the later compressor stages, helping to prevent engine surging.
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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.
To bleed on; to make bloody.
Usage- Obsolete
- Transitive
To show one's group loyalty by showing (its associated color) in one's blood.
Usage- copulative
- Figurative
- Intransitive
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He was a devoted Vikings fan: he bled purple.
To lose sap, gum, or juice.
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A tree or a vine bleeds when tapped or wounded.
To issue forth, or drop, like blood from an incision.
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For me the balm shall bleed.
To destroy the environment where another phonological rule would have applied.
Usage- Transitive
- of a phonological rule
- Antonyms
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Labialization bleeds palatalization.
To (cause to) extend to the edge of the page, without leaving any margin.
Usage- Transitive or intransitive
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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.
To lose money.
Usage- Intransitive
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Most of the sectors are bleeding, particularly the resources sector.
Noun
An incident of bleeding, as in haemophilia.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
A system for tapping hot, high-pressure air from a gas turbine engine for purposes such as cabin pressurization and airframe anti-icing.
Usage- Countable
- plural-normally
- Uncountable
- Examples
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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.
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).
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
A margin left at the edges of a shot to allow for the picture being cropped when it arrives at viewers' screens.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
The removal of air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
The phenomenon of in-character feelings affecting a player's feelings or actions outside of the game.
Usage- Uncountable
Verb
lose blood from one's body
- Synonyms
draw blood
- Synonyms
- Examples
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In the old days, doctors routinely bled patients as part of the treatment
get or extort (money or other possessions) from someone
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They bled me dry — I have nothing left!
be diffused
- Synonyms
- Broader terms
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These dyes and colors are guaranteed not to run
drain of liquid or steam
- Broader terms
- Examples
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bleed the radiators
the mechanic bled the engine