to bleed

Examples

• All

• The mall wavered like the image on a television with bad reception, breaking up, colors bleeding into long streaks.

  Fiction book (1996)

• And the color was bleeding, literally.

  Shawn Ryan Show

• So this bit all starts to sort of bleed into one.

• And sometimes that can bleed into life.

• It does kind of bleed down into this middle portion.

• The buzz of radio communications bleeds in from the background.

  Fiction book (2000)

• One answer bleeds into the next, as interminable as the last day of school before summer.

  Fiction book (1998)

• The landscape outside looked as if it were underwater, wet, bleeding green-yellow-blue.

  Fiction book (1996)

• The altispinax turned, and its sail caught the sunlight bleeding through the canopy.

  Fiction book (1992)

• Thick black oil bleeds from the truck onto the street, pouring underneath the rig and into the manhole.

  Fiction book (2000)

Synonyms

R

to run

vsto bleed

364 2.7

To let color or liquid spread and make marks

causes blurring or diffusion rather than just simple movement

Antonyms

S

to stay

∞ 1.0

To remain in one place and not leave

R

to retain

60 3.0

To hold something inside so it does not escape

Idioms

H

to heart bleed

• Informal

1 7.6

To feel deep sadness and pity for someone who is suffering

B

to bleed red ink

• Informal

7.8

To lose a lot of money over a long time

Phrasal Verbs

B

to bleed out

• NSFW

51 7.7

To lose so much blood from an injury that you may die

B

to bleed money

• Informal

2 7.7

To lose a lot of money over time

B

to bleed dry

• Informal

1 7.3

Use up all a person's money or other resources

B

to bleed out

• Jargon

1 8.5

To lose health while downed until you die unless other players revive you

B

to bleed white

• Informal

8.9

To lose all energy or resources until nothing is left

How Diffused

to spread

664 1.6

to run

364 2.7

to bleed

16 5.8

to smear

63 3.7

Surface Forms

Etymology