verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bleed/freeze/burn/starve to death
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Thousands of people are starving to death.
bleeding heart
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
death
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He bled to death in 15 minutes.
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In real life, Selena ran out of that motel room with a bullet wound, and bled to death .
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He quickly bled to death from the injury.
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Not, miraculously, through any major blood vessels, or I would by now have bled internally to death .
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Losing a leg to a shell, he quickly bled to death .
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Within minutes she had bled to death .
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He cut his wrists and bled to death .
heart
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They roll grenades down floors of cinemas and blow up women and kids: does your heart bleed about that, Trevor?
man
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But a man who bled was vulnerable, and a wound caused by a mouse-trap showed a reassuring degree of incompetence.
nose
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My nose started to bleed and my eyes streamed with water.
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His nose had bled and his forehead and face were badly bruised from his fall; but he was not seriously hurt.
■ VERB
begin
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Between us, we killed three of them, but a bullet hit my finger and it began to bleed .
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He hits him again and the bull begins to bleed from his ears.
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Moreover, my finger-tips began to bleed .
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Two months into that pregnancy, so the story goes, she began to bleed .
start
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I started to bleed down there but it's stopped now.
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And after about three days, I was in terrible pain and started to bleed a lot.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
my heart bleeds (for sb)
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"He says he can't come out tonight because he has to look after the kids." "My heart bleeds! That must be the first time he's stayed in with them since they were born!"
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My heart bleeds for those poor children.
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You can't afford a third car? My heart bleeds!
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A deep cut on her wrist was bleeding profusely.
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Marcia bled him for every penny he had.
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The brake line had to be bled.
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The dark blue bled into the white of the shirt.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All the crews of the after guns were knocked over by the concussion, and bled from the nose or ears.