Definition of "bleed"

bleed

/ˈbliːd/

verb
third-person singular simple present bleeds, present participle bleeding, simple past and past participle bled
1. (intransitive, of a person, animal or body part) To lose blood through an injured blood vessel.
2. (transitive) To let or draw blood from.
  Quotations
  "What did they die of?" I asked."Fevers. The doctor came and bled them and purged them, but they still died.""He bled and purged babies?""They were two and three. He said it would break the fever. And it did. But they ... they died anyway."
  1979, Octavia Butler, Kindred
3. (transitive) To take large amounts of money from.
4. (transitive) To steadily lose (something vital).
5. (intransitive, of an ink or dye) To spread from the intended location and stain the surrounding cloth or paper.
6. (transitive) To remove air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.
7. (transitive) To tap off high-pressure gas (usually air) from a system that produces high-pressure gas primarily for another purpose.
8. (obsolete, transitive) To bleed on; to make bloody.
9. (intransitive, copulative, figurative) To show one's group loyalty by showing (its associated color) in one's blood.
10. To lose sap, gum, or juice.
11. To issue forth, or drop, like blood from an incision.
  Quotations
  For me the balm shall bleed.
  1713, Alexander Pope, “Windsor-Forest. […]”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717
12. (phonology, transitive, of a phonological rule) To destroy the environment where another phonological rule would have applied.
13. (publishing, advertising, transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) extend to the edge of the page, without leaving any margin.
  Quotations
  Full-page and double-page colour advertisements in the Sunday colour magazines usually bleed off the page' (or are 'bled to the margin'), […]
  1998, Macmillan Dictionary of Marketing and Advertising, page 35
  Too, bleeding beyond margins provides editors with several picas of space for more layout.
  2004, Dorothy A. Bowles, Diane L. Borden, Creative Editing, page 361
14. (finance, intransitive) To lose money.
noun
countable and uncountable, plural bleeds
1. An incident of bleeding, as in haemophilia.
2. (aviation, usually in the plural) A system for tapping hot, high-pressure air from a gas turbine engine for purposes such as cabin pressurization and airframe anti-icing.
3. (printing) A narrow edge around a page layout, to be printed but cut off afterwards (added to allow for slight misalignment, especially with pictures that should run to the edge of the finished sheet).
4. (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
5. The removal of air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.
6. (uncountable, roleplaying games) The phenomenon of in-character feelings affecting a player's feelings or actions outside of the game.