1. Lose blood from one's body
   - shed blood, hemorrhage [N. Amer], haemorrhage [Brit, Cdn] 
2. Draw blood
   "In the old days, doctors routinely bled patients as part of the treatment"
   - leech, phlebotomize, phlebotomise [Brit] 
3. Get or extort (money or other possessions) from someone
   "They bled me dry--I have nothing left!" 
4. Be diffused
   - run 
5. Drain of liquid or steam
   "bleed the radiators"; "the mechanic bled the engine"

Derived forms: bled, bleeds, bleeding

See also: bleeder, bleeding

Type of: care for, diffuse, discharge, eject, empty, exhaust, expel, extort, fan out, gouge, rack, release, spread, spread out, squeeze, treat, wring

Encyclopedia: Bleed

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• vena portae
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• vena profunda penis
• vena pulmanalis inferior
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• vena pulmonalis superior
• vena pylorica
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• vena renalis
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• vena saphena
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