bleed

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Let's do something that doesn't make the lamb squeal and bleed -- we're on in five continents, dude.

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  1. intransitive verb To emit or lose blood.
  2. intransitive verb To be wounded, especially in battle.
  3. intransitive verb To feel sympathetic grief or anguish: My heart bleeds for the victims of the air crash.
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  • Let's do something that doesn't make the lamb squeal and bleed -- we're on in five continents, dude. —  Mike Rowe celebrates dirty jobs
  • : If they are old enough to bleed, they are old enough to breed ~ MGE —  Cubed3.com News
  • Nevertheless these guys are not supermen (the get shot they bleed, they can get sick, etc.), and their mecha the Scopedog gives it a lot more credibility in the realm of real robot. —  THAT Animeblog
  • The bleed, the differences across two skeins from the same dye lot, the general why didn't I just stick with good old stocking stitch bleughness - too much. —  Flibbertygibbet
  • : If they are old enough to bleed, they are old enough to breed ~ MGE ok i want a pokemon turment now!!!!!!!! —  Cubed3.com News
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hemorrhage ·  trauma ·  infection ·  lesion ·  inflammation ·  congestion ·  contraction ·  shapely ·  diarrhea ·  bony ·  scaly ·  throb

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bleed:   bled ·  bleeding
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English bleden, from Old English blēdan; see bhel-3 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English bleden, from Anglo-Saxon blēdan, bleed (= OFries. blēda = Dutch bloeden = Low German blöden = Old High German bluotan, Middle High German G. bluten, = Icelandic blædha = Swedish blöda = Danish blöde), from blōd, blood: see blood, and cf. bless.
 

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