BLEED

I. verb (bled; ~ing) Etymology: Middle English bleden, from Old English blēdan, from blōd blood Date: before 12th century intransitive verb 1. to emit or lose blood, to sacrifice one's blood especially in battle, to feel anguish, pain, or sympathy , 3. to escape by oozing or flowing (as from a wound), to spread into or through something gradually ; seep , to give up some constituent (as sap or dye) by exuding or diffusing it, 5. to pay out or give money, to have money extorted, to be printed so as to run off one or more edges of the page after trimming, transitive verb to remove or draw blood from, to get or extort money from especially over a prolonged period, to draw sap from (a tree), 4. to extract or let out some or all of a contained substance from , to extract or cause to escape from a container, to diminish gradually, to lose rapidly and uncontrollably , sap , to cause (as a printed illustration) to ~, II. noun Date: circa 1937 printed matter (as an illustration) that ~s, the escape of blood from vessels ; hemorrhage