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🩸 To lose fatal blood 🎮 To die in-game
to bleed out

to bleed out

1 8.5
To lose health while downed until you die unless other players revive you
  • phrasal verb
  • Jargon
translation icon : desangrarse
  • -Let him bleed out.

Examples

  • - She's gonna bleed out.

    Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

  • We're still short, and you're bleeding out Grants to Dean the delivery guy?

    Snack Shack (2024)

  • It's a slow death, bleeding out while others suck us dry.

    Blog text (27)

  • Pulled him out of the fire, and he bled out right in my arms.

    The Kid (2019)

  • IL: Teachers' Retirement System bleeding out, experts say.

    Blog text (28)

  • Every bit of joy she had felt earlier, to see and to taste, bled out of her.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • You said Chauncey was bled out, would it help if he was upside down?

    Absolute Anger (2023)

  • They lie down, they bleed out inside, stiffen up.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • When it's bled out pretty good, he lets it down and starts skinning it, starting with the head, cutting back of the poll down past the eye to the nose, and peeling the hide back.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • After he was shot, he lay on the ground, slowly bleeding out while his teammates tried to reach him.

Synonyms

to bleed
vsto bleed out
331 1.0

To lose blood from the body because of an injury or illness

lose remaining health while incapacitated in a game until death without revival

Antonyms

to revive
71 4.1

To make a person conscious again after fainting

How Critical

to die
∞ 1.0
to bleed out
  • Jargon
1 8.5
to damage
885 1.4

Surface Forms

bleed out infinitive
bleeding out present participle
bleeds out third person singular
bled out past
bled out past participle

Morphology

bleed + out

The sense 'to lose blood until dying/being incapacitated' is directly built from 'bleed' (lose blood) plus the particle 'out' signaling completion or depletion, so the core meaning is compositionally derivable. The video‑game phrasing (losing remaining health while downed) is a domain‑specific application of that literal sense, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should be able to infer the meaning.

Etymology

Bleed out in games borrows the same picture: a downed player keeps bleeding and losing the last of their health as it goes out. That's why it means a player will 'die' if no one revives them.