bleedbleed /bliːd/ ●●○ verb (past tense and past participle bled /bled/) 
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.2money [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.3air/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.4colour [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.5bleed 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 heart1(38)
WORD ORIGINbleed
Origin:
Old English bledan, from blod; ➔ BLOODVERB TABLE
bleed
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | bleed |
| he, she, it | bleeds | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | bled |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have bled |
| he, she, it | has bled | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had bled |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will bleed |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have bled |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am bleeding |
| he, she, it | is bleeding | |
| you, we, they | are bleeding | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was bleeding |
| you, we, they | were bleeding | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been bleeding |
| he, she, it | has been bleeding | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been bleeding |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be bleeding |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been bleeding |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- A deep cut on her wrist was bleeding profusely.
- Marcia bled him for every penny he had.
- The brake line had to be bled.
- The dark blue bled into the white of the shirt.
- All the crews of the after guns were knocked over by the concussion, and bled from the nose or ears.
Longman Language Activatorto hurt a part of your body
if you hurt a part of your body, you accidentally damage it so that it feels painful or you cannot move it easily: · Nick's hurt his back, and the doctor says he will have to rest for a few weeks.· I can't go running this week - I've hurt my foot.hurt yourself: · That's a sharp knife. Be careful you don't hurt yourself.
to hurt a part of your body, especially seriously and in a way that takes a long time to get better: · Tom injured his shoulder playing tennis.injure yourself: · Many elderly people injure themselves in their own homes, for example by slipping in the bath.
to hurt a part of your body when you fall or hit it against something, causing a dark, painful mark to form on your skin: · Mom fell on the ice and bruised the side of her leg.badly bruise: · Keller badly bruised a hip, and came off early in the second half of the match.· My skin bruises quite easily.
to hurt your knee, wrist, or another joint by twisting or pulling it suddenly and awkwardly: · I sprained my knee while I was playing basketball.· You'll need strong walking boots in the mountains, if you don't want to sprain an ankle.
to break a bone in your body: · It was such bad luck - it was our first time skiing and Nicola broke her leg.
to hurt your knee or another joint, by turning it too suddenly or strongly while you are moving: · I couldn't play, having twisted my knee in the previous night's game.· The doctor said that I'd wrenched my shoulder and shouldn't drive for a while.
: pull a muscle to injure a muscle by stretching it too much, especially during hard physical activity: · I pulled a muscle trying to move the piano into the apartment.· Crawford had been ordered to take a day's rest after pulling a leg muscle.
written to injure a part of your body fairly seriously, especially in a way that means it will take a long time to get better or will never get better: · Lewis damaged his knee in training and will not appear in the game.· When carrying out the operation, doctors have to take great care not to damage the delicate nerve endings.
to injure a joint by falling on it or stretching it so that the two parts of the joint are moved out of their normal position and stay out of position: · Sam dislocated his shoulder in a riding accident.
if part of your body is bleeding , blood is coming out of it because you have been injured: · His head was bleeding, and he'd obviously been in a fight.be bleeding from: · John saw that he was bleeding from some sort of wound on his chest.be bleeding heavily/profusely (=a lot of blood is coming out): · The cut on her leg had opened again and was bleeding heavily.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Tragically, she bled to death.
Tragically, she bled to death. (=bleed a lot) Mrs Burke was found unconscious and bleeding profusely.
Mrs Burke was found unconscious and bleeding profusely. (=take all their money, possessions etc) The ten-year war has bled the country dry.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES The ten-year war has bled the country dry.· Thousands of people are starving to death.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN· He bled to death in 15 minutes.· In real life, Selena ran out of that motel room with a bullet wound, and bled to death.· He quickly bled to death from the injury.· Not, miraculously, through any major blood vessels, or I would by now have bled internally to death.· Losing a leg to a shell, he quickly bled to death.· Within minutes she had bled to death.· He cut his wrists and bled to death.
· They roll grenades down floors of cinemas and blow up women and kids: does your heart bleed about that, Trevor?
· But a man who bled was vulnerable, and a wound caused by a mouse-trap showed a reassuring degree of incompetence.
· My nose started to bleed and my eyes streamed with water.· His nose had bled and his forehead and face were badly bruised from his fall; but he was not seriously hurt.
VERB· Between us, we killed three of them, but a bullet hit my finger and it began to bleed.· He hits him again and the bull begins to bleed from his ears.· Moreover, my finger-tips began to bleed.· Two months into that pregnancy, so the story goes, she began to bleed.
· I started to bleed down there but it's stopped now.· And after about three days, I was in terrible pain and started to bleed a lot.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
- "He says he can't come out tonight because he has to look after the kids." "My heart bleeds! That must be the first time he's stayed in with them since they were born!"
- My heart bleeds for those poor children.
- You can't afford a third car? My heart bleeds!
WORD FAMILYnounbloodbleedingadjectivebloodlessbloodyverbbleed
1blood 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.2money [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.3air/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.4colour [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.5bleed 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 heart1(38)