Dictionary entry details
• BLEED (verb)
Meaning:
Lose blood from one's body
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Synonyms:
bleed; hemorrhage; shed blood
Hypernyms (to "bleed" is one way to...):
discharge; eject; expel; release (eliminate (substances) from the body)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bleed"):
flow; menstruate (undergo menstruation)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Sentence example:
Did his feet bleed?
Meaning:
Draw blood
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Synonyms:
phlebotomize; phlebotomise; leech; bleed
Context example:
In the old days, doctors routinely bled patients as part of the treatment
Hypernyms (to "bleed" is one way to...):
care for; treat (provide treatment for)
Domain category:
medicine; practice of medicine (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Meaning:
Get or extort (money or other possessions) from someone
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Context example:
They bled me dry--I have nothing left!
Hypernyms (to "bleed" is one way to...):
extort; gouge; rack; squeeze; wring (obtain by coercion or intimidation)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s something from somebody
Sentence example:
They bleed him of all his money
Meaning:
Be diffused
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
bleed; run
Context example:
These dyes and colors are guaranteed not to run
Hypernyms (to "bleed" is one way to...):
diffuse; fan out; spread; spread out (move outward)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bleed"):
crock (release color when rubbed, of badly dyed fabric)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Meaning:
Drain of liquid or steam
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context examples:
bleed the radiators / the mechanic bled the engine
Hypernyms (to "bleed" is one way to...):
empty (make void or empty of contents)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
