BLEED (bled)

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Irregular inflected form: bled   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does bleed mean? 

• BLEED (verb)
  The verb BLEED has 5 senses:

1. lose blood from one's body

2. draw blood

3. get or extort (money or other possessions) from someone

4. be diffused

5. drain of liquid or steam

  Familiarity information: BLEED used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLEED (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they bleed    ... he / she / it bleeds   
Past simple: bled   
Past participle: bled   
-ing form: bleeding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lose blood from one's body

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

bleed; hemorrhage; shed blood

Hypernyms (to "bleed" is one way to...):

discharge; eject; exhaust; expel; release (eliminate (a substance))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bleed"):

flow; menstruate (undergo menstruation)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sentence example:

Did his feet bleed?

Derivation:

bleeder (someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding)

bleeding (the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Draw blood

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

bleed; leech; phlebotomise; phlebotomize

Context example:

In the old days, doctors routinely bled patients as part of the treatment

Hypernyms (to "bleed" is one way to...):

care for; treat (provide treatment for)

Domain category:

medicine; practice of medicine (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 3

Meaning:

Get or extort (money or other possessions) from someone

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

They bled me dry--I have nothing left!

Hypernyms (to "bleed" is one way to...):

extort; gouge; rack; squeeze; wring (obtain by coercion or intimidation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s something from somebody

Sentence example:

They bleed him of all his money

Sense 4

Meaning:

Be diffused

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

bleed; run

Context example:

These dyes and colors are guaranteed not to run

Hypernyms (to "bleed" is one way to...):

diffuse; fan out; spread; spread out (move outward)

Verb group:

melt; melt down; run (reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bleed"):

crock (release color when rubbed, of badly dyed fabric)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 5

Meaning:

Drain of liquid or steam

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

the mechanic bled the engine

Hypernyms (to "bleed" is one way to...):

empty (make void or empty of contents)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

Symptoms include nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, headache, dizziness, weakness, fatigue, bleeding, hair loss, swelling, itching, and redness of the skin, and other skin problems.

(Acute radiation sickness, NCI Dictionary)

Patients may present with uterine bleeding.

(Adult Type Ovarian Granulosa Cell Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

Symptoms of AML include: • Fever • Shortness of breath • Easy bruising or bleeding • Bleeding under the skin • Weakness or feeling tired • Weight loss or loss of appetite

(Acute Myeloid Leukemia, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

Bleeding disorders are common presenting features.

(Acute Monoblastic and Monocytic Leukemia, NCI Thesaurus)

And invasive procedures, such as a biopsy or needle aspiration, can cause dangerous bleeding.

(How the spleen keeps blood healthy, NIH)

It causes eczema (a type of skin inflammation), a decrease in the number of platelets (blood cells that help prevent bleeding), and frequent bacterial infections.

(Aldrich syndrome, NCI Dictionary)

It is used to shrink tissues, to stop bleeding, and to boost the immune response to a vaccine.

(Alum, NCI Dictionary)

It is claimed to treat infertility and to lessen symptoms that may occur before or during a woman's menstrual period, such as headaches and irregular bleeding.

(Angus castus, NCI Dictionary)

Angiomyolipomas rarely cause symptoms, but may bleed or grow large enough to be painful or cause kidney failure.

(Angiomyolipoma, NCI Dictionary)

If an aneurysm grows large, it can burst and cause dangerous bleeding or even death.

(Aneurysms, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)