bleed

/blid/ v [I/T] (past tense and past participle bled /bled/)

Definition

› to lose blood: [I] Before help could reach him, the man bled to death. [T] fig. Because of the taxes, our state is bleeding jobs (= many jobs are leaving).

(Definition of bleed v from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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bleach n
bleachers pl n
bleak adj
bleary adj
bleat v
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bleeding heart n
bleep n
bleep v
blemish n
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