to emit or lose blood
If you prick us, do we not bleed? — Shakespeare
to die or be wounded, esp in battle
Scots wha hae wi’ Wallace bled — Burns
(+ for) to feel anguish, pain, or sympathy
heart bleeds for these poor people
to lose some constituent (e.g. sap or dye) by exuding it or by diffusion
said of sap, dye, etc: to ooze or flow out
to be printed so as to run off an edge of a page after trimming
to remove or draw blood from (somebody)
to extort money from (somebody)
to draw sap from (a tree)
to extract or let out some or all of (a liquid or gas) from a container, etc
They bled the air from the central-heating system
to extract or let out some or all of a liquid or gas from (a container system)
bleed the brakes
to cause (e.g. a printed illustration) to bleed
to trim (e.g. a page) so that some of the printing bleeds
to extract or drain the vitality or lifeblood from (something)
High taxes are bleeding private enterprise