BLEED, verb intransitive preterit tense and participle passive bled. 1. To lose blood; to run with blood, by whatever means; as, the arm bleeds. 2. To die a violent death, or by slaughter. The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to day. 3. To issue forth, or drop as blood, from an incision; to lose sap, gum or juice; as, a tree or a vine bleeds. For me the balm shall bleed The heart bleeds, is a phrase used to denote extreme pain from sympathy or pity. BLEED, verb transitive To let blood; to take blood from, by opening a vein.
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