bleed

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

bleed [bleed bleeds bled bleeding] BrE [bliːd] NAmE [bliːd] verb (bled, bledBrE [bled] ; NAmE [bled] )
1. 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.
2. transitive ~ sb (in the past) to take blood from sb as a way of treating disease
3. transitive ~ 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. transitive ~ sth to remove air or liquid from sth so that it works correctly
5. intransitive ~ (into sth) 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.
more at my heart bleeds for sb at ↑heart
Idiom: ↑bleed somebody dry
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Word Origin:
Old English blēdan, of Germanic origin; related to ↑blood.

Example Bank:
•The small blood vessels in the nose bleed easily.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  run, leech, phlebotomize, phlebotomise, shed blood, hemorrhage