BLEED


Meaning of BLEED in English

v.

Pronunciation: ' bl ē d

Function: verb

Inflected Form: bled \ ' bled \ ; bleed · ing

Etymology: Middle English bleden, from Old English bl ē dan, from bl ō d blood

Date: before 12th century

intransitive verb

1 a : to emit or lose blood b : to sacrifice one's blood especially in battle

2 : to feel anguish, pain, or sympathy <a heart that bleed s at a friend's misfortune>

3 a : to escape by oozing or flowing (as from a wound) b : to spread into or through something gradually : SEEP <foreign policy bleed s into economic policy ― J. B. Judis>

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

transitive verb

1 : to remove or draw blood from

2 : to get or extort money from especially 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 < bleed a brake line> b : to extract or cause to escape from a container c : to diminish gradually ― usually used with off <a pilot bleed ing off airspeed> d : to lose rapidly and uncontrollably <the company was bleed ing money> e : SAP <cost overruns ⋯ bleed other programs ― Alex Roland>

5 : to cause (as a printed illustration) to bleed

– bleed white : to drain of blood or resources

Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary.      Merriam Webster - Энциклопедический словарь английского языка.