bleed

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bleed /bliːd/ verb (past tensepst and past participlepp bled /bled/)

1 blood 血

a) [intransitiveI]MIINJURE to lose blood, especially because of an injury 〔尤指因受傷〕流血，出血

Your nose is bleeding.

你的鼻子流血了。

Tragically, she bled to death.

非常不幸，她失血過多死了。

bleed profusely/heavily (=bleed a lot) 大量出血

Mrs Burke was found unconscious and bleeding profusely.

伯克夫人被發現時已經不省人事，血流如注。

b) [transitiveT] to take some blood from someone’s body, done in the past in order to treat a disease 給…放血〔舊時的治病方法〕

When he fell sick several days later, he had a doctor bleed him.

幾天後他病倒了，就讓一個醫生給他做放血治療。

2 money 錢 [transitiveT]MONEY to force someone to pay an unreasonable amount of money over a period of time 榨取〔錢財〕

His ex-wife clearly intends to bleed him for every last penny.

他的前妻顯然是想榨幹他每一分錢。

bleed somebody dry/white (=take all their money, possessions etc) 把某人榨幹

The ten-year war has bled the country dry.

十年戰爭耗盡了國力。

3 air/liquid 空氣/液體 [transitiveT]AIRLIQUID to remove air or liquid from a system in order to make it work properly, for example from a heating system 抽掉〔氣體或液體〕

We need to bleed the radiators.

我們得把散熱器中的水放掉。

4 colour 顔色 [intransitiveI]CC to spread from one area of cloth or paper to another 滲開 SYN run

Wash it in cold water so the colours don’t bleed.

用冷水洗滌以防滲色。

5 bleed red ink informal if a company or business bleeds red ink, it loses a lot of money, rather than making money 出現赤字，出現虧損

Analysts predict the retailer will continue to bleed red ink, with losses topping $180 million.

分析人士預測，這家零售企業將會繼續虧損，虧損額將超過1.8億美元。

→ my heart bleeds (for somebody) at heart1(38)

Examples from the Corpus

bleed• The brake line had to be bled.• All the crews of the after guns were knocked over by the concussion, and bled from the nose or ears.• Marcia bled him for every penny he had.• The dark blue bled into the white of the shirt.• A deep cut on her wrist was bleeding profusely.

bled to death• He cut his wrists and bled to death.• In real life, Selena ran out of that motel room with a bullet wound, and bled to death.• Losing a leg to a shell, he quickly bled to death.• Within minutes she had bled to death.• He bled to death after being shot in the stomach.• As it was cruel to Eileen, who'd bled to death after the birth of her tiny baby.• He quickly bled to death from the injury.• He bled to death in 15 minutes.• She did not care if he bled to death in front of her.

From Longman Business Dictionary

bleedbleed /bliːd/ verb (past tensepst and past participlepp bled /bled/)

1[intransitiveI] to lose money

Its consumer electronics division continued to bleed, with an operating loss of $100 million.

2[transitiveT] to make someone pay an unreasonable amount of money

bleed somebody for something

She bled him for every last cent that she could.

3bleed somebody/something dry/white to take a lot or all of someone’s money

developing countries bled dry by massive loan repayments

Origin bleed

Old English bledan, from blod; → BLOOD

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