bleed

bleed is a 5-letter English word with 14 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 14 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. 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.
2. intransitive verb. To withdraw blood from the body; to let blood; as, Dr. A. bleeds in fevers.
3. intransitive verb. To lose or shed one's blood, as in case of a violent death or severe wounds; to die by violence.
4. intransitive verb. To issue forth, or drop, as blood from an incision.
5. intransitive verb. To lose sap, gum, or juice; as, a tree or a vine bleeds when tapped or wounded.
6. intransitive verb. To pay or lose money; to have money drawn or extorted; as, to bleed freely for a cause.
7. transitive verb. To let blood from; to take or draw blood from, as by opening a vein.
8. transitive verb. To lose, as blood; to emit or let drop, as sap.
9. transitive verb. To draw money from (one); to induce to pay; as, they bled him freely for this fund.
10. verb. lose blood from one's body

    Synonyms: hemorrhage

11. verb. draw blood

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

    Synonyms: leech, phlebotomise, phlebotomize

12. verb. drain of liquid or steam

    "bleed the radiators"

    "the mechanic bled the engine"

13. verb. be diffused

    "These dyes and colors are guaranteed not to run"

    Synonyms: run

14. verb. get or extort (money or other possessions) from someone

    "They bled me dry--I have nothing left!"

Synonyms

hemorrhage, leech, phlebotomise, phlebotomize, run

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in bleed:

bedel, debel

Common word forms

blee, bleeds, bleeder, bleeding

Words from these letters

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