bleed
vb , bleeds, bleeding, bled
1 intr to lose or emit blood
2 tr to remove or draw blood from (a person or animal)
3 intr to be injured or die, as for a cause or one's country
4 (of plants) to exude (sap or resin), esp. from a cut
5 tr
Informal to obtain relatively large amounts of money, goods, etc., esp. by extortion
6 tr to draw liquid or gas from (a container or enclosed system)
to bleed the hydraulic brakes
7 intr (of dye or paint) to run or become mixed, as when wet
8 to print or be printed so that text, illustrations, etc., run off the trimmed page
9 tr to trim (the edges of a printed sheet) so closely as to cut off some of the printed matter
10 intr (Civil engineering, building trades) (of a mixture) to exude (a liquid) during compaction, such as water from cement