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The definition of bleed
14 Definitions of: bleed
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- verb, to lose or emit blood
- verb, to remove or draw blood from (a person or animal)
- verb, to be injured or die, as for a cause or one's country
- verb, (of plants) to exude (sap or resin), esp from a cut
- verb, to obtain relatively large amounts of money, goods, etc, esp by extortion
- verb, to draw liquid or gas from (a container or enclosed system)
- verb, (of dye or paint) to run or become mixed, as when wet
- verb, to print or be printed so that text, illustrations, etc, run off the trimmed page
- verb, to trim (the edges of a printed sheet) so closely as to cut off some of the printed matter
- verb, civil engineering building trades (of a mixture) to exude (a liquid) during compaction, such as water from cement
- verb, bleed (someone or something) dry to extort gradually all the resources of (a person or thing)
- verb, one's heart bleeds used to express sympathetic grief, but often used ironically
- noun, printing a) an illustration or sheet trimmed so that some matter is bled b) (as modifier)
- noun, printing the trimmings of a sheet that has been bled
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©HarperCollins 2008. Collins English Dictionary definition of bleed