bleed

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bleed /bliːd/ BrE AmE verb (past tense and past participle bled /bled/)
[Word Family: noun: ↑blood, ↑bleeding; adjective: ↑bloodless, bloody; verb: ↑bleed]
[Language: Old English; Origin: bledan, from blod; ⇨ ↑blood]
1. BLOOD
a) [intransitive] to lose blood, especially because of an injury:
Your nose is bleeding.
Tragically, she bled to death.
bleed profusely/heavily (=bleed a lot)
Mrs Burke was found unconscious and bleeding profusely.
b) [transitive] to take some blood from someone’s body, done in the past in order to treat a disease:
When he fell sick several days later, he had a doctor bleed him.
2. MONEY [transitive] to force someone to pay an unreasonable amount of money over a period of time:
His ex-wife clearly intends to bleed him for every last penny.
bleed somebody dry/white (=take all their money, possessions etc)
The ten-year war has bled the country dry.
3. AIR/LIQUID [transitive] to remove air or liquid from a system in order to make it work properly, for example from a heating system:
We need to bleed the radiators.
4. COLOUR [intransitive] to spread from one area of cloth or paper to another SYN run:
Wash it in cold water so the colours don’t bleed.
5. bleed red ink informal if a company or business bleeds red ink, it loses a lot of money, rather than making money:
Analysts predict the retailer will continue to bleed red ink, with losses topping $180 million.
⇨ my heart bleeds (for somebody) at ↑heart(38)

bleedhu

◎	[bli:d]
※	nội động từ, động tính từ quá khứ và thì quá khứ là bled
	■	chảy máu, mất máu
		☆	to bleed to death
			chảy máu đến chết
	■	đổ máu, hy sinh
		☆	to bleed for one's country
			hy sinh cho tổ quốc
※	ngoại động từ
	■	(y học) lấy máu (để thử)
	■	(to bleed somebody for something) bòn rút, chiếm đoạt
		☆	the husband bleeds his wife for every dong she earned
			người chồng bòn rút từng đồng mà vợ mình kiếm được
	〆	to bleed somebody white
		✓	(xem) white
	〆	one's heart bleeds for sb
		✓	thương xót cho ai

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