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To lose blood from severe or fatal wounds; to be severely wounded in battle, or the like; to shed one's blood or die by bloodshed.
figurative. Of the heart, or a wound: to weep (tears of) blood.
to bleed white: (a) intransitive (hyperbolically) to shed colourless blood (rare); (b) transitive to drain completely of resources (cf. bleed, v. 10).