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BLEED

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Irregular inflected form: bled   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lose blood from one's body

Synonyms:

bleed; hemorrhage; shed blood

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

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

Example:

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

Synonyms:

bleed; leech; phlebotomise; phlebotomize

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

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:

Drain of liquid or steam

Example:

the mechanic bled the engine

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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

empty (make void or empty of contents)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Be diffused

Example:

These dyes and colors are guaranteed not to run

Synonyms:

bleed; run

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

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:

Get or extort (money or other possessions) from someone

Example:

They bled me dry--I have nothing left!

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

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

Credits

 Context examples: 

This substance has a very low acute toxicity in humans and is characterized by skin rash, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting and nose bleeds.

(Amitrole, NCI Thesaurus)

A study warned that women with low levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, sometimes called "bad cholesterol," may face an increased risk of bleeding stroke.

(Low Levels of Bad Cholesterol Increase Stroke Risk, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

People with missing or low levels of factor IX bleed longer than healthy people.

(Gene Therapy Used to Treat Hemophilia, NIH)

Significant bleeding—a known risk of regular aspirin use—was also measured.

(Daily low-dose aspirin found to have no effect on healthy life span in older people, National Institutes of Health)

Red blood cell transfusions are commonly given to critically ill children for conditions such as trauma, cancer chemotherapy, intraoperative bleeding, and chronic conditions such as sickle cell disease and thalassemia.

(Fresh red blood cell transfusions do not help critically ill children more than older cells, National Institutes of Health)

Later symptoms include vomiting, diarrhea, rash, impaired kidney and liver function, and in some cases, internal and external bleeding (hemorrhage).

(Genetics of the 2014 Ebola Outbreak, NIH)

Injectable hydrogels are promising materials for achieving hemostasis in case of internal injuries and bleeding, as these biomaterials can be introduced into a wound site using minimally invasive approaches.

(Injectable Bandage Created, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

When the body doesn’t make enough platelets, it increases the risk of bruising and bleeding.

(An overlooked role for lungs in blood formation, NIH)

My heart bled for you, as I talked of happiness; and yet he is sensible, he is agreeable, and with such a woman as you, it was not absolutely hopeless.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

A procedure to stop bleeding and close the location of arterial entry following a diagnostic or therapeutic procedure.

(Arterial Access Closure, NCI Thesaurus)