Bleed
- v. t. To draw money from (one); to induce to pay; as, they bled him freely for this fund.
- v. i. To emit blood; to lose blood; to run with blood, by whatever means; as, the arm bleeds; the wound bled freely; to bleed at the nose.
- v. i. To withdraw blood from the body; to let blood; as, Dr. A. bleeds in fevers.
- v. i. To lose or shed one’s blood, as in case of a violent death or severe wounds; to die by violence.
- v. i. To issue forth, or drop, as blood from an incision.
- v. i. To lose sap, gum, or juice; as, a tree or a vine bleeds when tapped or wounded.
- v. i. To pay or lose money; to have money drawn or extorted; as, to bleed freely for a cause.
- v. t. To let blood from; to take or draw blood from, as by opening a vein.
- v. t. To lose, as blood; to emit or let drop, as sap. <
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.