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| bled | |
| 1. n. (in parts of French North Africa) Hinterland, field. |  |
| bleed | |
| 1. v. (intransitive, of an animal) To lose blood through an injured blood vessel. | |
| If her nose bleeds, try to use ice. | |
| 2. v. To let or draw blood from. | |
| 3. v. To take large amounts of money from. | |
| 4. v. To steadily lose (something vital). | |
| The company was bleeding talent. | |
| 5. v. (intransitive, of an ink or dye) To spread from the intended location and stain the surrounding cloth or paper. | |
| 6. v. To remove air bubbles from a pipe containing fluids. | |
| 7. v. (obsolete, transitive) To bleed on; to make bloody. | |
| 8. v. (intransitive, copulative) To show one's group loyalty by showing (its associated color) in one's blood. | |
| He was a devoted Vikings fan: he bled purple. | |
| 9. v. To lose sap, gum, or juice. | |
| A tree or a vine bleeds when tapped or wounded. | |
| 10. v. To issue forth, or drop, like blood from an incision. | |
| 11. v. (phonology, transitive, of a phonological rule) To destroy the environment where another phonological rule would have applied. | |
| Labialization bleeds palatalization. | |
| 12. n. An incident of bleeding, as in haemophilia. | |
| 13. n. (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) | |
| 14. n. (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended. | |
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