Verb

(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.

Verb

(en verb)

To push air from the lungs in a quick, noisy explosion.

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To make a noise like a cough.