Definition of Bleed

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Definition of Bleed

Bleed

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.

To withdraw blood from the body; to let blood; as, Dr. A. bleeds in fevers.

To lose or shed one's blood, as in case of a violent death or severe wounds; to die by violence.

To issue forth, or drop, as blood from an incision.

To lose sap, gum, or juice; as, a tree or a vine bleeds when tapped or wounded.

To pay or lose money; to have money drawn or extorted; as, to bleed freely for a cause.

To let blood from; to take or draw blood from, as by opening a vein.

To lose, as blood; to emit or let drop, as sap.

To draw money from (one); to induce to pay; as, they bled him freely for this fund.

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Bleed Quotations

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
William Shakespeare

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Ernest Hemingway

I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily.
Michael Jackson

Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.
Steve Prefontaine

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
Rabindranath Tagore

We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins.
Tupac Shakur

From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.
Isaac Asimov

I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky.
Tommy Lasorda

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
Honore de Balzac

The decision, therefore, lies here in the East; here must the Russian enemy, this people numbering two hundred million Russians, be destroyed on the battle field and person by person, and made to bleed to death .
Heinrich Himmler

Bleed Translations

bleed in Dutch is bloed aftappen, aderlaten
bleed in French is saignez, saignons, saigner, saignent
bleed in Italian is buttare sangue
bleed in Portuguese is sangramento
bleed in Spanish is sangrar

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