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Weep vs Bleed - What's the difference?

weep | bleed |

As verbs the difference between weep and bleed

is that weep is to cry; shed tears while bleed is (of an animal) to lose blood through an injured blood vessel.

As nouns the difference between weep and bleed

is that weep is the lapwing; the wipe while bleed is an incident of bleeding, as in haemophilia.

weep

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) wepen, from (etyl) .

Verb

  • To cry; shed tears.
  • * Longfellow
  • They wept together in silence.
  • To lament; to complain.
  • * Bible, Numbers xi. 13
  • They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.
  • (medicine, of a, wound or sore) To produce secretions.
  • To flow in drops; to run in drops.
  • a weeping spring, which discharges water slowly
  • * Shakespeare
  • The blood weeps from my heart.
  • To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; said of a plant or its branches.
  • (obsolete) To weep over; to bewail.
  • * Prior
  • Fair Venus wept the sad disaster / Of having lost her favorite dove.
    Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * weep in one's beer * weepy * weeping willow

    Etymology 2

    Imitative of its cry.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The lapwing; the wipe.
  • bleed

    English

    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.
  • *:
  • *: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.
  • Derived terms

    * bleed dry * bleeder * bleeding heart * bleed out * bleed to death * bleed white

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.