bleed
English
/ˈbliːd/
verb
Definitions
- (intransitive) To lose blood through an injured blood vessel.
- (transitive) To let or draw blood from.
- (transitive) To take large amounts of money from.
- (transitive) To steadily lose (something vital).
- (intransitive) To spread from the intended location and stain the surrounding cloth or paper.
- (transitive) To remove air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.
- (obsolete) To bleed on; to make bloody.
- (intransitive) To show one's group loyalty by showing (its associated color) in one's blood.
- To lose sap, gum, or juice.
- To issue forth, or drop, like blood from an incision.
- (phonology) To destroy the environment where another phonological rule would have applied.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English bleden inherited from Old English blēdan (bleed) inherited from Proto-Germanic *blōþijaną (bleed).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*blōþijaną
Gloss
bleed
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bebleed English
- bleedable English
- bleeder English
- bleedest English
- bleedeth English
- counterbleed English
- forbleed English
- macrobleed English
- microbleed English
- nose English
- nosebleed English
- nosebleeder English
- outbleed English
- overbleed English
- rebleed English
- ausbluten German
- bluten German
- durchbluten German
- verbluten German
- bebloeden Dutch, Flemish
- bloeden Dutch, Flemish
- bloeding Dutch, Flemish
- doodbloeden Dutch, Flemish
- *blōþijaną Proto-Germanic
- blöda Swedish
- blödning Swedish
- bledan Old English
- blēdan Old English
- bebleden Middle English
- blede Middle English
- bleden Middle English
- forbleden Middle English
- blœða Old Norse
- nosebleed Cebuano
- bloeden Middle Dutch
- bluotan Old High German
- bluoten Old High German
- bluoten Middle High German
- bludden Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- *bluoden Old Dutch
- blodian Old Saxon
- blöden Old Saxon
- blø̄þa, bløþa Old Swedish
- bliede Western Frisian
- blēda Old Frisian
- bläide Saterland Frisian
- blöden Low German