{
    "term": "bleed",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "bleed",
            "heSheIt": "bleeds"
        },
        "pastSimple": "bled",
        "pastParticiple": "bled",
        "ingForm": "bleeding"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to lose blood, especially from a wound or an injury",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "My finger's bleeding."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She slowly **bled to death**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was bleeding from a gash on his head."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The small blood vessels in the nose bleed easily."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Health problems"],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["badly", "heavily", "profusely"],
                "preposition": ["from"],
                "phrases": ["bleed to death"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "(in the past) to take blood from somebody as a way of treating disease",
            "sensetop": "bleed somebody",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to force somebody to pay a lot of money over a period of time",
            "sensetop": "bleed somebody (for something)",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The company seems intent on bleeding us for every penny we have."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "to remove air or liquid from something so that it works correctly",
            "sensetop": "bleed something",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "to spread from one area of something to another area",
            "sensetop": "bleed (into something)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Keep the paint fairly dry so that the colours don't bleed into each other."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to take away all somebody’s money",
            "labels": "(disapproving)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The big corporations are bleeding some of these small countries dry."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to say that you do not feel sympathy for somebody",
            "labels": "(ironic)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "‘I have to go to Brazil on business.’ ‘My heart bleeds for you!’"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/bliːd/",
                "audio": "bl/bleed/bleed__gb_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/bliːdz/",
                "audio": "bl/bleed/bleeds__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/bled/",
                "audio": "bl/bleed/bled__gb_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈbliːdɪŋ/",
                "audio": "bl/bleed/bleeding__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/bliːd/",
                "audio": "bl/bleed/bleed__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/bliːdz/",
                "audio": "bl/bleed/bleeds__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/bled/",
                "audio": "bl/bleed/bled__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈbliːdɪŋ/",
                "audio": "bl/bleed/bleeding__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English blēdan, of Germanic origin; related to blood."
}