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Bled

/ˈbled/

(of a person or animal) To lose blood through an injured blood vessel.

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📖 Definitions of "Bled"

verb

1
(of a person or animal) To lose blood through an injured blood vessel.
"If her nose bleeds, try to use ice."
2
To let or draw blood from.
3
To take large amounts of money from.
4
To steadily lose (something vital).
"The company was bleeding talent."

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Bled"

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Word	Definition
victimized	Having been made into a victim or treated like one.
rannoun	(nautical) Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch.
blackmailedverb	(transitive) To extort money or favors from (a person) by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, such as injury to reputation, distress of mind, false accusation, etc.
extortedverb	(transitive) To take or seize from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity.
milkedverb	(transitive) To express milk from (a mammal, especially a cow).
persecutedverb	To pursue in a manner to do harm or cruelty to; especially, because of the victim's race, sexual identity, or adherence to a particular belief.
purgedverb	(transitive) To clean thoroughly; to rid of impurities; to cleanse.
seepedverb	(intransitive) To ooze or pass slowly through pores or other small openings, and in overly small quantities; said of liquids, etc.
hemorrhagedverb	(intransitive) To bleed copiously.
exsanguinatedverb	—
drained	Lacking motivation and energy; very tired; knackered.
leaked	Of a document, etc, produced by a company or organization, intended to be confidential but having been released to the public or the press.
oozedverb	(intransitive, sometimes figurative) To be secreted or slowly leak.
streamed	(UK, education) Divided into academic streams.
gushedverb	(intransitive, also figurative) To flow forth suddenly, in great volume.
spurtedverb	(transitive) To cause to gush out suddenly or violently in a stream or jet.
emittedverb	(transitive) To send out or give off.
effusedverb	(transitive) To emit; to give off.
flowedverb	(intransitive) To move as a fluid from one position to another.
trickledverb	(transitive) to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously.