bleed
/bli:d/
Definition
Verb (Intransitive):
- To lose blood from the body: The primary meaning refers to the escape of blood from a wound or blood vessel.
- To feel great sympathy or anguish: Used figuratively to express deep emotional pain or sorrow.
- To exude sap or fluid: Used for plants or other objects that release a liquid.
Verb (Transitive):
- To draw blood or fluid from: To intentionally remove blood or another fluid from something or someone.
- To extort money or resources from: To drain someone of money or possessions, often through pressure or unfair means.
- To allow (ink or dye) to run or spread: In printing or design, for a color to spread into an adjacent area.
Examples of Usage
Intransitive Verb:
- If you cut your finger, it will bleed.
- My heart bleeds for the victims of the disaster.
- The tree began to bleed sap after the branch was cut.
Transitive Verb:
- The doctor used to bleed patients to treat certain illnesses.
- The corrupt official bled the company dry over several years.
- The red ink bled into the yellow area on the wet paper.
Advanced Usage
"to bleed someone dry/white": To take all of someone's money or resources, leaving them with nothing.
- The endless legal fees bled the family dry.
"bleed into": For one thing to gradually mix with or affect another, often negatively.
- His personal problems began to bleed into his work performance.
Variants and Related Words
- Bleeder (n): (Informal, sometimes offensive) A person with hemophilia; or a person or thing that bleeds.
- Bleeding (adj, n): The process of losing blood; (UK informal, as an intensifier) extreme, as in
Synonyms
- Exude: To discharge slowly and steadily (for fluids).
- Drain: To cause to flow out or to exhaust resources.
- Extort: To obtain something by force or threat (for the financial sense).
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Bleed out: To die from loss of blood.
- The victim bled out before the ambulance arrived.
Related Idioms
My heart bleeds (for you): An expression of sarcastic or genuine sympathy.
- (Sarcastic) Oh, you have to work late? My heart bleeds.
- (Genuine) My heart bleeds for the families who lost their homes.
Bleed red ink: To lose money, to operate at a financial loss.
- The new division is bleeding red ink and may need to be closed.
Verb
-
drain of liquid or steam
-
bleed the radiators
-
the mechanic bled the engine
-
-
be diffused
-
These dyes and colors are guaranteed not to run
-
-
get or extort (money or other possessions) from someone
-
They bled me dry--I have nothing left!
-
-
draw blood
-
In the old days, doctors routinely bled patients as part of the treatment
-
-
lose blood from one's body
Khám phá thêm
Các từ liên quan
Từ đồng nghĩa
Từ chứa "bleed"
Từ có nhắc đến "bleed"