How to pronounce “bleed”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (intransitive, of a person, animal or body part) To shed blood through an injured blood vessel.
• (transitive) To let or draw blood from.
• (transitive) To take large amounts of money from.
• (transitive) To steadily lose (something vital).
• (intransitive, of an ink or dye) To spread from the intended location and stain the surrounding cloth or paper.
• (transitive) To remove air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.
• (transitive) To tap off high-pressure gas (usually air) from a system that produces high-pressure gas primarily for another purpose.
• (obsolete, transitive) To bleed on; to make bloody.
• (intransitive, copulative, figurative) To show one's group loyalty by showing (its associated color) in one's blood.
• To lose sap, gum, or juice.
• To issue forth, or drop, like blood from an incision.
• (phonology, transitive, of a phonological rule) To destroy the environment where another phonological rule would have applied.
• (publishing, advertising, ambitransitive) To (cause to) extend to the edge of the page, without leaving any margin.
• (finance, intransitive) To lose money.
• [Noun]
• An incident of bleeding, as in haemophilia.
• (aviation, usually in the plural) A system for tapping hot, high-pressure air from a gas turbine engine for purposes such as cabin pressurization and airframe anti-icing.
• (printing) A narrow edge around a page layout, to be printed but cut off afterwards (added to allow for slight misalignment, especially with pictures that should run to the edge of the finished sheet).
• (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
• The removal of air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.
• (uncountable, roleplaying games) The phenomenon of in-character feelings affecting a player's feelings or actions outside of the game.
• [Adjective]
• (Erzgebirgisch) stupid, dim-witted

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