Word Finder - bled

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(of a person or animal) To lose blood through an injured blood vessel.

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If her nose bleeds, try to use ice.

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To let or draw blood from.

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To take large amounts of money from.

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To steadily lose (something vital).

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The company was bleeding talent.

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(of an ink or dye) To spread from the intended location and stain the surrounding cloth or paper.

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Ink traps counteract bleeding.

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To remove air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.

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To bleed on; to make bloody.

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To show one's group loyalty by showing (its associated color) in one's blood.

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He was a devoted Vikings fan: he bled purple.

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To lose sap, gum, or juice.

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A tree or a vine bleeds when tapped or wounded.

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To issue forth, or drop, like blood from an incision.

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(of a phonological rule) To destroy the environment where another phonological rule would have applied.

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Labialization bleeds palatalization.

You bled on my tie and puked on my shoes.

She was alive, though the back of her head bled.

The Dacians fought their ground inch by inch, and their army as a whole may be said to have bled to death.

When nearly bled to death for the illustrious House of Austria, they were transferred to the House of Bourbon, which in its turn dragged them into conflict with Austria in Italy and England on the sea.

In due time the horse is bled, the serum is filtered free of blood corpuscles, and then constitutes the antitoxic serum, which can be standardized to a certain potency.

Dean tuned her out when she described the miscreant becoming impaled on a giant icicle while fair what's-her-name laughed in his face as he slowly bled to death before her.

Because a post-operative complications, caused mainly by a fibroid, I bled heavily for weeks.

Her maid, of whom she had been obliged to make a confidante, had had her bled by a student, her lover.

They then dismounted from the wounded horse who bled to death that night & got home to Beanston with great difficulty.

Who is it that's starving us? shouted Denisov, hitting the table with the fist of his newly bled arm so violently that the table nearly broke down and the tumblers on it jumped about.

Time to make your way home or extend your holiday in Bled.

If you played FFVII until your thumbs bled, you probably wouldn't mind losing another 101 minutes to this franchise.

If a person bled on their clothing right before death, the clothing that they were wearing is buried with them.

Some customers reported that the bag "bled" when exposed to rain due to improper sealing of the artwork's paint.

Sookie and Bill's attraction grew after she saved him from V harvesters (people who bled out vampires to sell their blood) and he introduced her to the nearby vampire sheriff, Eric.

Rhyn had become like a brother to him, and the idea of killing his mate reopened wounds that hadn.t bled since he stood in this place thousands of years before.

Bianca swallowed hard, reminded of her time being bled near death by the former Black God and his son.

Wherever we were wounded and stricken her heart bled in sympathy, and all our maladies and miseries evoked from her a lyric wail."

A Bourbon at Versailles, a Habsburg at Vienna, or a thick-lipped Lorrainer, with a stroke of his pen, wrote off province against province, regarding not the populations who had bled for him or thrown themselves upon his mercy.

This toxin-containing broth is injected into a horse in increasing doses, just as in the case of the serpent venom, and after the resistance of the horse has been much increased it is bled into sterilized vessels and the blood is allowed to coagulate.

Life lasted till the emaciation had proceeded to six-tenths of the animal's weight, as in Chossat's experiments, extending to the fourteenth day, instead of ending on the tenth day, as was the case with other dogs which were not bled.

In them, she had been the human trapped in Hell being bled and tortured daily by Darkyn.

The doctor, who was fetched that same night, bled him and said that the prince had had a seizure paralyzing his right side.

Light bled from around its edges and harsh sibilant voices could be heard within.

The former vamp jerked and clutched at his hands at the pain but soon went still as Xander bled him close to dry.

But despite the fact that the doctors treated him, bled him, and gave him medicines to drink, he recovered.

The old Greek statues moved of themselves, shook their spears, kneeled down, spoke, walked, wept, laughed, winked, and even bled and sweated, - a mighty portent.

The Grey God's broken nose bled for only a second before the wound healed.

At Charles X.'s death, five years later, we find Sweden, herself bled to exhaustion point, surrounded by a broad belt of desolated territory and regarded with ineradicable hatred by every adjacent state.