bleeding out

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

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