Synonyms for bleed
blidbleed

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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 SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

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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1. 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.

2. Sheila Kariuki:

   Boys had crazy ideas that after a robbery, when they sleep with an old woman, it's like they are cleansed, the young boys would strangle the cucus ... Every time we went to pick up the corpse of an old woman, my heart used to bleed.

3. Rabindranath Tagore:

   A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it

4. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit:

   The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war

5. Sun Tzu:

   Sweat more during peace: bleed less during war