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bleed out en · NOUN

Meanings

  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.

Forms

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bleed-out alternative lexicographic
bleed outs Number=Plur lexicographic

bleed out en · VERB

Meanings

  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.

Forms

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bleeding out Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
bled out Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
bled out Tense=Past lexicographic
bleeds out Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
bleed-out alternative lexicographic

Relateds

exsanguination · hypovolemia

Synonyms

exsanguinate

Translations (25)

pt sangrar até a morte (die due to excess bloodloss) · de ausbluten (die due to excess bloodloss) · es exangüe (die due to excess bloodloss) · cs vykrvácet (die due to excess bloodloss) · de verbluten (die due to excess bloodloss) · el αιμορραγώ μέχρι θανάτου (die due to excess bloodloss) · sv förblöda (die due to excess bloodloss) · pt esvair-se em sangue (die due to excess bloodloss) · fi valua kuiviin (die due to excess bloodloss) · pl wykrwawiać się impf wykrwawić się (die due to excess bloodloss) · cy gwaedu i farwolaeth (die due to excess bloodloss) · nl doodbloeden (die due to excess bloodloss) · ru исте́чь кро́вью (die due to excess bloodloss) · fr se vider de son sang (die due to excess bloodloss) · pt sangrar até morrer (die due to excess bloodloss) · es desangrarse (die due to excess bloodloss) · is blæða út (die due to excess bloodloss) · ro sângera până la moarte (die due to excess bloodloss) · hu elvérzik (die due to excess bloodloss) · tr kan kaybından ölmek (die due to excess bloodloss) · cmn 失血過多而死 /失血过多而死 (die due to excess bloodloss) · ar نَزَفَ حَتَّى الْمَوْت (die due to excess bloodloss) · ru истека́ть кро́вью (die due to excess bloodloss) · ca dessagnar-se (die due to excess bloodloss) · da forbløde (die due to excess bloodloss)