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Bleed   /blid/   Listen
verb
Bleed  v. t.  (past & past part. bled; pres. part. bleeding)  
1.
To let blood from; to take or draw blood from, as by opening a vein.
2.
To lose, as blood; to emit or let drop, as sap. "A decaying pine of stately size, bleeding amber."
3.
To draw money from (one); to induce to pay; as, they bled him freely for this fund. (Colloq.)


Bleed  v. i.  (past & past part. bled; pres. part. bleeding)  
1.
To emit blood; to lose blood; to run with blood, by whatever means; as, the arm bleeds; the wound bled freely; to bleed at the nose.
2.
To withdraw blood from the body; to let blood; as, Dr. A. bleeds in fevers.
3.
To lose or shed one's blood, as in case of a violent death or severe wounds; to die by violence. "Caesar must bleed." "The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day."
4.
To issue forth, or drop, as blood from an incision. "For me the balm shall bleed."
5.
To lose sap, gum, or juice; as, a tree or a vine bleeds when tapped or wounded.
6.
To pay or lose money; to have money drawn or extorted; as, to bleed freely for a cause. (Colloq.)
To make the heart bleed, to cause extreme pain, as from sympathy or pity.





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"Bleed" Quotes from Famous Books



... on the gloves than anything else. At first we thought of the problem as a heat problem, but it was tougher than that. Heat loss was not much, out there in a vacuum, and they made arrangements to warm the handles of my tools so that I wouldn't bleed heat through my gloves to them and thus freeze my fingers. No, the problem was to get a glove that stood up to a pressure difference of three or four pounds per square inch and could still be flexed with any ...
— The Trouble with Telstar • John Berryman
... tightly, General Sackville. You need a little more freedom of play, and less impetuosity. I don't want to hurt you seriously, but your blood is altogether too hot, and next time I will bleed you on the ...
— With Frederick the Great - A Story of the Seven Years' War • G. A. Henty
... responded to the sole wishes left to his family. He buried the woman, and I received him. I took him on my tour. A second marriage might cover the first: there would be a buzz about the old business: the woman's relatives write to him still, try to bleed him, I dare say. However, now you understand his gloominess. I don't imagine he regrets his loss. He probably sentimentalizes, like most men when they are well rid of a burden. You must not think the ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... study of histology. Whichever animal is selected should be young and well developed. Put it under influence of chloroform, and open into the cavity of the chest; make an incision into the right ventricle, and allow the animal to bleed to death; cut the trachea and inject the lungs with a solution of one and a half drachms of chromic acid in one quart of water, care being taken not to overdistend the lung. Tie the severed end to prevent the escape of the fluid, and carefully remove ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 492, June 6, 1885 • Various
... scorn'd each other Or injured friend or brother, In this fast fading year; Ye who, by word or deed, Have made a kind heart bleed, Come gather here. Let sinn'd against and sinning, Forget their strife's beginning; Be links no longer broken, Be sweet forgiveness ...
— Christmas: Its Origin and Associations - Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries • William Francis Dawson


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