1 [V] 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.
2 [VN] (in the past) to take blood from sb as a way of treating disease
3 [VN] ~ sb (for sth) (informal) to force sb to pay a lot of money over a period of time:
My ex-wife is bleeding me for every penny I have.
4 [VN] to remove air or liquid from sth so that it works correctly
5 [V] to spread from one area of sth to another area:
Keep the paint fairly dry so that the colours don't bleed into each other.
IDIOMS
bleed sb dry (disapproving) to take away all sb's money:
The big corporations are bleeding some of these small countries dry.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for bleed is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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