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outbleed

outbleed noun: the bleeding or release of air from a system.

Noun

outbleed (plural outbleeds)

  1. The bleeding or release of air from a system.
    • With shrouding to prevent this outbleed, thrusts 5 to 10 percent less than those of the unperforated nozzle were obtained.1953, Eli Reshotko, Preliminary Investigation of a Perforated Axially Symmetric nozzle for varying nozzle pressure ratios
    • The mass flow m is constant along the duct, that is no mass flow inbleed or outbleed occurs;1956, Rudolf Hermann, Supersonic inlet diffusers and introduction to internal aerodynamics, page 34

Verb

outbleed (third-person singular simple present outbleeds, present participle outbleeding, simple past and past participle outbled)

  1. (transitive) To bleed more than; to lose more blood than.
    • And there is enough gore to outbleed “Ben-Hur.”1963, Show: The Magazine of the Performing Arts - Volume 3, Part 2, page 28
    • But my heart is bigger than your heart, And I will outbleed you.1987, Douglas A. McIntyre, Karen S. Hull, The Harvard advocate anniversary anthology, page 319
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To win (a battle) by being willing to accept more casualties or injuries.
    • The conflict in Europe must inevitably show that the standard of justice is not established by the power of one nation to outbleed another.1915, Fordham College Monthly - Volume 34, page 21
    • Warren had tried to act rationally and humanely under a general whose main strategy was to bludgeon his opponent to death, to outbleed him.2019, S. C. Gwynne, Hymns of the Republic, page 60

Examples of outbleed in a sentence

  • Control of the moisture within the tunnel circuit is maintained with the dry-air inbleed and outbleed system (described in ref. 9) in conjunction with a water-injection system.1985, NASA Technical Memorandum - Issues 86378-86405, page 4:
  • Though one autumn morning poppies may suddenly flare out in full bloom, their skirts outrageously seeming to outbleed a maimed human being1989, Books - Volumes 3-4, page 52:
  • Now he realizes that he has more blood than she does, and can probably outbleed her, but he's about to faint even, before cutting himself, and he decides to forfeit, and she wins.2014, Piers Anthony, Letters to Jenny:

Forms of outbleed

Noun
pluraloutbleeds
Verb
third-person singular presentoutbleeds
present participleoutbleeding
past participleoutbled
pastoutbled

Origin of outbleed

From out- + bleed.

Questions about outbleed

What does outbleed mean?
Outbleed means the bleeding or release of air from a system.
How do you use outbleed in a sentence?
Control of the moisture within the tunnel circuit is maintained with the dry-air inbleed and outbleed system (described in ref. 9) in conjunction with a water-injection system.
What part of speech is outbleed?
Outbleed can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of outbleed?
The plural of outbleed is outbleeds.

Words near outbleed in the dictionary

  1. outbleat
  2. outbleated
  3. outbleating
  4. outbleats
  5. outbled
  6. outbleed
  7. outbleeding
  8. outbleeds
  9. outbless
  10. outblessed
  11. outblesses

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