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Bleed   /blid/   Listen
verb
Bleed  v. t.  (past & past part. bled; pres. part. bleeding)  
1.
To let blood from; to take or draw blood from, as by opening a vein.
2.
To lose, as blood; to emit or let drop, as sap. "A decaying pine of stately size, bleeding amber."
3.
To draw money from (one); to induce to pay; as, they bled him freely for this fund. (Colloq.)



Bleed  v. i.  (past & past part. bled; pres. part. bleeding)  
1.
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.
2.
To withdraw blood from the body; to let blood; as, Dr. A. bleeds in fevers.
3.
To lose or shed one's blood, as in case of a violent death or severe wounds; to die by violence. "Caesar must bleed." "The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day."
4.
To issue forth, or drop, as blood from an incision. "For me the balm shall bleed."
5.
To lose sap, gum, or juice; as, a tree or a vine bleeds when tapped or wounded.
6.
To pay or lose money; to have money drawn or extorted; as, to bleed freely for a cause. (Colloq.)
To make the heart bleed, to cause extreme pain, as from sympathy or pity.






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"Bleed" Quotes from Famous Books



... we not bleed?" It was the first time that Lawrence had ever discovered a servant to be a human being: and his philosophical musings were chequered, till he moved out of earshot, by the clamour of Catherine's irrepressible dismay. "Oh madam!" he ...
— Nightfall • Anthony Pryde

... I had bandaged the cut on my leg as well as possible, but it continued to bleed. But it was imperative that we should find water, and we struggled on, traversing narrow passages and immense caverns, always in complete darkness, stumbling over unseen rocks and encountering ...
— Under the Andes • Rex Stout

... work-day counter, still sound silver-proof; In short, with all the dreams of dreamers young, Before their heads have time for slipping off Hope's pillow to the ground. How oft, indeed, We've sent our souls out from the rigid north, On bare white feet which would not print nor bleed, To climb the Alpine passes and look forth, Where booming low the Lombard rivers lead To gardens, vineyards, all a dream is worth,— Sights, thou and I, Love, have seen afterward From Tuscan Bellosguardo, wide awake,[11] When, standing on the actual blessed sward Where Galileo stood at nights to ...
— The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV • Elizabeth Barrett Browning

... milk-distended udders to the town: Out of my sheep-cotes ta'en the fatted lamb Sends home with silver right-hand heavily charged; And, while its mother lows, the tender calf Before the temples of the Gods must bleed. 15 Hence of such Godhead, (traveller!) stand in awe, Best it befits thee off to keep thy hands. Thy cross is ready, shaped as artless yard; "I'm willing, 'faith" (thou say'st) but 'faith here comes The boor, and plucking forth with ...
— The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus • Caius Valerius Catullus

... adopted into the popular belief and incorporated with the general mass of misapprehension with reference to disease, must be expected to meet us at every turn in the shape of bad practice founded on false doctrine. A French patient complains that his blood heats him, and expects his doctor to bleed him. An English or American one says he is bilious, and will not be easy without a dose of calomel. A doctor looks at a patient's tongue, sees it coated, and says the stomach is foul; his head full of the old saburral notion which the extreme inflammation-doctrine of Broussais did so much to ...
— Medical Essays • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.


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