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bleedthrough

bleedthrough is the alternative spelling of bleed-through.

Meaning of bleed-through

Noun

bleed-through (countable and uncountable, plural bleed-throughs)

  1. The seepage of ink from one side of a printed page to the other.
  2. The discolouration of a wood veneer due to seepage of glue.
  3. A weak imprint of magnetic information transferred to adjacent layers of audiotape, resulting in an unwanted echo.
    Synonyms:
    print-through

Forms of bleedthrough

pluralbleedthroughs

Questions about bleedthrough

What is bleedthrough the alternative spelling of?
Bleedthrough is the alternative spelling of bleed-through.

Words near bleedthrough in the dictionary

  1. bleeds like a pig
  2. bleeds out
  3. bleeds red ink
  4. bleeds the monkey
  5. bleeds white
  6. bleedthrough
  7. bleedthroughs
  8. bleedy
  9. bleekbok
  10. Bleeker
  11. Bleekers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bleedthrough (page history and authors); bleed-through (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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