[bleed] vb bled ; bleed.ing [ME bleden, fr. OE bledan, fr. blod blood] vi (bef. 12c) 1 a: to emit or lose blood b: to sacrifice one's blood esp. in battle
2: to feel anguish, pain, or sympathy "a heart that ~s at a friend's misfortune"
3: to escape by oozing or flowing (as from a wound)
4: to give up some constituent (as sap or dye) by exuding or diffusing it
5. a: to pay out or give money b: to have money extorted
6: to be printed so as to run off one or more edges of the page after trimming ~ vt 1: to remove or draw blood from
2: to get or extort money from esp. over a prolonged period
3: to draw sap from (a tree)
4. a: to extract or let out some or all of a contained substance from "~ a brake line" b: to extract or cause to escape from a container c: to diminish gradually--usu. used with off "a pilot ~ing off airspeed"
5: to cause (as a printed illustration) to bleed -- bleed white : to drain of blood or resources
[2]bleed n (ca. 1937): printed matter (as an illustration) that bleeds; also: the part of a bleed trimmed off