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 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. 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. Yoshiko Shimabukuro:

   We didn't want to leave. We didn't want to have to be scattered out there and die alone, i asked for some kind of explosive, or cyanide, so that I could kill myself if the Americans came. I was told they didn't have anything like that for us. They told us that if we were captured we should bite off our own tongues and bleed to death.

3. President Obama:

   We all bleed when we lose an American life, we all grieve when any innocent life is taken. We don't take this work lightly. And I know that each and every one of you understand the magnitude of what we do and the stakes involved and these aren't abstractions and we're not cavalier about what we do.

4. Ryan Brown:

   Congress entrusts decision-making like this with the FDA. And they’re coming in trying to overrule that, saying this medication is unsafe because women bleed. Well, that’s part of having an abortion. It’s also part of having a pregnancy, the bottom line being that they just want to do away with abortion across the board and for any reason.

5. George R.R. Martin:

   Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.