Synonyms for bleed
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1. shed blood, bleed, hemorrhageverb

   lose blood from one's body

   Synonyms:
   leech, hemorrhage, run, shed blood, phlebotomize, phlebotomise

2. bleed, leech, phlebotomize, phlebotomiseverb

   draw blood

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

   Synonyms:
   leech, hemorrhage, shed blood, run, phlebotomize, phlebotomise

3. bleedverb

   get or extort (money or other possessions) from someone

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

   Synonyms:
   leech, hemorrhage, shed blood, run, phlebotomize, phlebotomise

4. run, bleedverb

   be diffused

   "These dyes and colors are guaranteed not to run"

   Synonyms:
   course, operate, shed blood, hunt, fly the coop, work, scat, run away, move, turn tail, leech, range, run, guide, function, lead, lam, phlebotomise, flow, melt down, track down, break away, head for the hills, extend, hunt down, endure, bunk, take to the woods, phlebotomize, consort, execute, feed, carry, scarper, go, unravel, lean, play, die hard, race, pass, run for, black market, persist, incline, draw, hightail it, be given, prevail, campaign, tend, escape, hemorrhage, ladder, ply, melt

5. bleedverb

   drain of liquid or steam

   "bleed the radiators"; "the mechanic bled the engine"

   Synonyms:
   leech, hemorrhage, shed blood, run, phlebotomize, phlebotomise

Matched Categories

1. • Diffuse
   • Empty
   • Extort
   • Medicine
   • Treat

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. bleedverb

   Synonyms:
   lose blood

2. bleedverb

   Synonyms:
   lose sap or juice

3. bleedverb

   Synonyms:
   be slaughtered

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1. bleedverb

   Synonyms:
   exude

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1. List of paraphrases for "bleed":

   purge, bleeder, bleeding, bleeds, hemorrhage, bolt, purged, haemorrhage, hemorrhaging, flush, seepage, download

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How to use bleed in a sentence?

1. Pierre Trudeau:

   There’s a lot of bleeding hearts around who just don’t like to see people with helmets and guns. All I can say is ‘go on and bleed.’ But it’s more important to keep law and order in this society than to be worried about weak-kneed people who don’t like the looks of a soldier’s helmet, how far would you go?

2. A. E. Housman:

   Who made the world I cannot tell 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.

3. Police Department:

   She fell to the ground, hit her head and suffered a brain bleed, among other injuries, but she’s tough and didn’t give up her purse or the money inside and should be out of the hospital soon.

4. Alan Gripp:

   The embarrassment of the arrest of the man responsible for irrigating campaigns of the Workers' Party will make the government bleed at a moment when it felt that its wounds (caused by the Petrobras scandal) were healing.

5. Ron Lawson:

   Everyone's waiting for the other guy to go first, when there's a limit to how much you can bleed out, guys will be a little less reluctant to take positions.