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bleed out

bleed out noun: an instance of exsanguination or of major blood loss.

Noun

bleed out (plural bleed outs)

  1. (informal) An instance of exsanguination or of major blood loss.
    • There are shootings, stabbings, car wrecks, falls and other accidents that can create a fatal bleed out situation.2023 December 3, David Martin Davies, “Stopping the bleed out to save lives”, in Texas Public Radio, archived from the original on 21 Feb 2024
  2. (figuratively) An instance of any system or item that loses its necessary components, such as a machine and its fuel or a company and its money.

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To die due to excess blood loss; to bleed to death.
    • But we never got to take the shot I'd been trained to take, that beautiful single shot that takes out a man's head, or the gutshot—Chris Kyle's favorite—that allows him to bleed out and die a little slower, maybe think about all the ways he might have lived a different and better life.2013, Anthony Swofford, Death of an American Sniper, →ISBN
  2. (transitive) To kill by causing such bloodloss.
  3. (figuratively, intransitive) To leak out; to spread.
    • Most slang begins in small communities, but some words bleed out into wider society over time.
    Synonyms:
    exsanguinate

bleed out meaning in Arabic

bleed out in Arabic

die due to excess bloodloss
نَزَفَ حَتَّى الْمَوْت nazafa ḥattā l-mawt

Synonyms of bleed out

Forms of bleed out

Noun
pluralbleed outs
alternative formbleed-out
Verb
third-person singular presentbleeds out
present participlebleeding out
past participlebled out
pastbled out

Questions about bleed out

What does bleed out mean?
Bleed out means an instance of exsanguination or of major blood loss.
What is bleed out in Arabic?
Bleed out in Arabic is نَزَفَ حَتَّى الْمَوْت (nazafa ḥattā l-mawt). See Bleed out meaning in Arabic.
What part of speech is bleed out?
Bleed out can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of bleed out?
The plural of bleed out is bleed outs.

Words near bleed out in the dictionary

  1. bleed holes
  2. bleed key
  3. bleed like a pig
  4. bleed like a stuck hog
  5. bleed like a stuck pig
  6. bleed out
  7. bleed outs
  8. bleed red ink
  9. bleed the lizard
  10. bleed the monkey
  11. bleed white

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