bleed

7 definitions • 10 examples

to lose blood:

Your arm is bleeding.

He was bleeding heavily.

(in the past) to make someone lose blood, as a cure for an illness

If you bleed a closed system such as a radiator or a brake, you remove air or liquid from it to make it work correctly.

If colour, ink, paint, etc. bleeds, it spreads beyond the edges of something onto an area that is another colour:

Avoid slow-drying ink because the colours tend to bleed into one another before they've dried.

Dyes can sometimes bleed when a rug is cleaned.

When we used ordinary paper the colours bled through rather than sitting on top of the page.

to lose blood:

[ I ] Before help could reach him, the man bled to death.

[ T ] fig. Because of the taxes, our state is bleeding jobs (= many jobs are leaving).

to lose a lot of money, or to make this happen:

The newspaper is bleeding money and is now almost €150 million in the red.

bleed sth from sth The energy crisis is estimated to be bleeding $1.4 billion a month from the region's economy.

to take all or most of the money of a person, organization, country, etc.:

Unfair trade bleeds countries dry through repayments of national debts.