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bleed white

bleed white verb: to drain of blood extensively.

Verb

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

  1. (literally) To drain of blood extensively.
    Synonyms:
    exsanguinate
  2. (figuratively, informal, transitive) To cause life-threatening hardship through deprivation of essential resources.
    • France had been bled white by the war.1948, Winston Churchill, The Gathering Storm, Houghton Mifflin, published 1948, page 11

Synonyms of bleed white

Forms of bleed white

third-person singular presentbleeds white
present participlebleeding white
past participlebled white
pastbled white

Questions about bleed white

What does bleed white mean?
Bleed white means to drain of blood extensively.
What part of speech is bleed white?
Bleed white is a verb.
What is the past tense of bleed white?
The past tense of bleed white is bled white.

Words near bleed white in the dictionary

  1. bleed out
  2. bleed outs
  3. bleed red ink
  4. bleed the lizard
  5. bleed the monkey
  6. bleed white
  7. bleed-edge
  8. bleed-edges
  9. bleed-sheet
  10. bleed-sheets
  11. bleed-through

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