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The Meaning of bleed

  • (v. i.) 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.
  • (v. i.) To withdraw blood from the body; to let blood; as, Dr. A. bleeds in fevers.
  • (v. i.) To lose or shed one's blood, as in case of a violent death or severe wounds; to die by violence.
  • (v. i.) To issue forth, or drop, as blood from an incision.
  • (v. i.) To lose sap, gum, or juice; as, a tree or a vine bleeds when tapped or wounded.
  • (v. i.) To pay or lose money; to have money drawn or extorted; as, to bleed freely for a cause.
  • (v. t.) To let blood from; to take or draw blood from, as by opening a vein.
  • (v. t.) To lose, as blood; to emit or let drop, as sap.
  • (v. t.) To draw money from (one); to induce to pay; as, they bled him freely for this fund.

Synonyms

leech , hemorrhage , run , shed blood , phlebotomize , phlebotomise , course , operate , hunt , fly the coop , work , scat , run away , move , turn tail , range , guide , function , lead , lam , flow , melt down , track down , break away , head for the hills , extend , hunt down , endure , bunk , take to the woods , consort , execute , feed , carry , scarper , go , unravel , lean , play , die hard , race , pass , run for , black market , persist , incline , draw , hightail it , be given , prevail , campaign , tend , escape , ladder , ply , melt , exhaust , discharge , expel , eject , release

Rhymes

accede , agreed , aidid , airspeed , alwaleed , aniseed , appleseed , aristede , aristide , bead , bede , beede , brede , breed , cede , centipede , concede , cottonseed , creed , decreed , dede , deed , degreed , disagreed , duckweed , ede , exceed , fede , feed , fireweed , flaxseed , frede , freed , freid , fried , friede , gaede , ganymede , gilead , glede , gleed , greed , guaranteed , hamid , heed , impede , inbreed , indeed , intercede , keyed , knead , kneed , laclede , lead , leed , linseed , lipide , mead , meade , milkweed , misdeed , mislead , misread , need , nied , nosebleed , oilseed , peed , pitied , plead , pokeweed , precede , proceed , proofread , prophesied , ragweed , rapeseed , rasheed , rashid , read , recede , reed , reid , reread , reseed , ried , riede , schmead , screed , seaweed , secede , seed , shaheed , siegfried , sinead , skied , smead , snead , sneed , speed , stampede , steed , streed , succeed , swede , teide , thede , thiede , tiede , treed , tweed , vahid , wahid , waleed , walid , weed , wied , wrede