bleed
verb/bliːd/
/bliːd/
Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they bleed | /bliːd/ /bliːd/ |
| he / she / it bleeds | /bliːdz/ /bliːdz/ |
| past simple bled | /bled/ /bled/ |
| past participle bled | /bled/ /bled/ |
| -ing form bleeding | /ˈbliːdɪŋ/ /ˈbliːdɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive] to lose blood, especially from a wound or an injury
- My finger's bleeding.
- She slowly bled to death.
- He was bleeding from a gash on his head.
- The small blood vessels in the nose bleed easily.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- badly
- heavily
- profusely
- …
- from
- bleed to death
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- [transitive] bleed somebody (in the past) to take blood from somebody as a way of treating disease
- [transitive] bleed somebody (for something) (informal) to force somebody to pay a lot of money over a period of time
- The company seems intent on bleeding us for every penny we have.
- [transitive] bleed something to remove air or liquid from something so that it works correctly
- [intransitive] bleed (into something) to spread from one area of something to another area
- Keep the paint fairly dry so that the colours don't bleed into each other.
Word OriginOld English blēdan, of Germanic origin; related to blood.
Idioms
See bleed in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee bleed in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishbleed somebody dry
- (disapproving) to take away all somebody’s money
- The big corporations are bleeding some of these small countries dry.
my heart bleeds (for somebody)
- (ironic) used to say that you do not feel sympathy for somebody
- ‘I have to go to Brazil on business.’ ‘My heart bleeds for you!’
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