Bleed vs Bloody - What's the difference?
bleed | bloody |
(of an animal) To lose blood through an injured blood vessel.
:If her nose bleeds try to use ice.
To let or draw blood from an animal.
To take large amounts of money from.
To steadily lose (something vital).
:The company was bleeding talent.
(of an ink or dye) To spread from the intended location and stain the surrounding cloth or paper.
To remove air bubbles from a pipe containing fluids.
(obsolete) To bleed on; to make bloody.
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*:And soo they souped lyghtely and wente to bedde with grete ioye and plesaunce / and soo in his ragyng he took no kepe of his grene wound that kynge Marke had gyuen hym / And soo syr Tristram bebled both the ouer shete and the nether & pelowes / and hede shete
(copulative) To show one's group loyalty by showing (its associated color) in one's blood.
:He was a devoted Vikings fan: he bled purple.
To lose sap, gum, or juice.
:A tree or a vine bleeds when tapped or wounded.
To issue forth, or drop, like blood from an incision.
*Alexander Pope
*:For me the balm shall bleed .
(phonology, transitive, of a phonological rule) To destroy the environment where another phonological rule would have applied.
:Labialization bleeds palatalization.
An incident of bleeding, as in haemophilia.
A narrow edge around a page layout, to be printed but cut off afterwards (added to allow for slight misalignment, especially with pictures that should run to the edge of the finished sheet).
The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
Covered in blood.
* , Act 5, Scene 1, 2008 [1947], Forgotten Books,
* 2011 , , analysis of Act 2 Scene 1,
Characterised by bloodshed.
* Shakespeare
* 1845 , , 2008,
* 2007 , Lucinda Mallows, Lucy Mallows, Slovakia: The Bradt Travel Guide ,
(AU, NZ, UK, colloquial, mildly, vulgar, not comparable) Used as an intensifier.
* 1994 , , Lord of Chaos , page 519,
* 2003 , ,
* 2007 , James MacFarlane, Avenge My Kin , Book 2: A Time of Testing,
(AU, NZ, British, mildly, vulgar) Used to intensify what follows this adverb.
To draw blood from one's opponent in a fight.
To demonstrably harm the cause of an opponent.
As verbs the difference between bleed and bloody
is that bleed is to lose blood through an injured blood vessel while bloody is to draw blood from one's opponent in a fight.As a noun bleed
is an incident of bleeding, as in haemophilia.As an adjective bloody is
covered in blood.As an adverb bloody is
used to intensify what follows this adverb.bleed
English
Verb
Derived terms
* bleed dry * bleeder * bleeding heart * bleed out * bleed to death * bleed whiteNoun
(en noun)bloody
English
Alternative forms
* bloudy (obsolete)Adjective
(er)- All that remained of his right hand after the accident was a bloody stump.
page 84,
- And, as she fled, her mantle she did fall, / Which Lion vile with bloody mouth did stain.
100,
- They plan to walk to the market-place, showing their bloody hands and swords and declaring ‘Peace, freedom and liberty!’
- There have been bloody battles between the two tribes.
- Some bloody passion shakes your very frame.
page 5,
- I had therefore been, until now, out of the way of the bloody scenes that often occurred on the plantation.
page 169,
- The story of Elizabeth Bathory is one of the bloodiest in history.
- Try to keep those bloody' women's '''bloody''' heads on their ' bloody shoulders by somehow helping them make this whole mad impossible scheme actually work.
page 64,
- You are not to go asking anyone about who killed that bloody dog.
page 498,
- “You bloody fool, I could?ve stabbed you in the heart,” David said in mock anger, and then smiled widely.
Synonyms
* (covered in blood) bleeding, bloodied, gory, sanguinolent * (intensifier) bally, blasted, bleeding (chiefly British cockney), blinking, blooming, damn, damned, dang, darned, doggone, flaming, freaking, fricking, frigging, fucking, goddam / goddamn, goddamned, godforsaken (rare), wretched, rotten * See alsoDerived terms
* bloody hell * bloody oath * bloody mary * bloody warrior * give someone a bloody noseAdverb
(en adverb)- 1994:' '', 109 - "Dice are no ' bloody good," David said.
