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bleed like a pig

bleed like a pig verb: to bleed profusely.

Verb

bleed like a pig (third-person singular simple present bleeds like a pig, present participle bleeding like a pig, simple past and past participle bled like a pig)

  1. (simile) To bleed profusely.
    • "They carried off their wounded comrade - he was bleedin' like a pig - and then they sat around us, and if ever I saw frozen murder it was in their faces."1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

Synonyms of bleed like a pig

Forms of bleed like a pig

third-person singular presentbleeds like a pig
present participlebleeding like a pig
past participlebled like a pig
pastbled like a pig

Questions about bleed like a pig

What does bleed like a pig mean?
Bleed like a pig means to bleed profusely.
What part of speech is bleed like a pig?
Bleed like a pig is a verb.
What is the past tense of bleed like a pig?
The past tense of bleed like a pig is bled like a pig.

Words near bleed like a pig in the dictionary

  1. bleed edges
  2. bleed for
  3. bleed hole
  4. bleed holes
  5. bleed key
  6. bleed like a pig
  7. bleed like a stuck hog
  8. bleed like a stuck pig
  9. bleed out
  10. bleed outs
  11. bleed red ink

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