bleed

/bli:d/

Thân thiện

Definition

1. 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.

2. 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.

Học thuật

Verb

1. drain of liquid or steam
   • bleed the radiators
   • the mechanic bled the engine
2. be diffused
   • These dyes and colors are guaranteed not to run
3. get or extort (money or other possessions) from someone
   • They bled me dry--I have nothing left!
4. draw blood
   • In the old days, doctors routinely bled patients as part of the treatment
5. lose blood from one's body

Từ đồng nghĩa

• run
• leech
• phlebotomize
• phlebotomise
• shed blood
• hemorrhage