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{
"term": "bleed",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "bleed",
"heSheIt": "bleeds"
},
"pastSimple": "bled",
"pastParticiple": "bled",
"ingForm": "bleeding"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to lose blood, especially from a wound or an injury",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "My finger's bleeding."
},
{
"text": "She slowly **bled to death**."
},
{
"text": "He was bleeding from a gash on his head."
},
{
"text": "The small blood vessels in the nose bleed easily."
}
],
"topics": ["Health problems"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["badly", "heavily", "profusely"],
"preposition": ["from"],
"phrases": ["bleed to death"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "(in the past) to take blood from somebody as a way of treating disease",
"sensetop": "bleed somebody",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to force somebody to pay a lot of money over a period of time",
"sensetop": "bleed somebody (for something)",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The company seems intent on bleeding us for every penny we have."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "to remove air or liquid from something so that it works correctly",
"sensetop": "bleed something",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": 5,
"definition": "to spread from one area of something to another area",
"sensetop": "bleed (into something)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Keep the paint fairly dry so that the colours don't bleed into each other."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to take away all somebody’s money",
"labels": "(disapproving)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The big corporations are bleeding some of these small countries dry."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "used to say that you do not feel sympathy for somebody",
"labels": "(ironic)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "‘I have to go to Brazil on business.’ ‘My heart bleeds for you!’"
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/bliːd/",
"audio": "bl/bleed/bleed__gb_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/bliːdz/",
"audio": "bl/bleed/bleeds__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/bled/",
"audio": "bl/bleed/bled__gb_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈbliːdɪŋ/",
"audio": "bl/bleed/bleeding__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/bliːd/",
"audio": "bl/bleed/bleed__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/bliːdz/",
"audio": "bl/bleed/bleeds__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/bled/",
"audio": "bl/bleed/bled__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈbliːdɪŋ/",
"audio": "bl/bleed/bleeding__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Old English blēdan, of Germanic origin; related to blood."
}