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Bleed
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. t.) To draw money from (one); to induce to pay; as, they bled him freely for this fund.
(2):
(v. t.) To lose, as blood; to emit or let drop, as sap.
(3):
(v. i.) To lose sap, gum, or juice; as, a tree or a vine bleeds when tapped or wounded.
(4):
(v. i.) To issue forth, or drop, as blood from an incision.
(5):
(v. t.) To let blood from; to take or draw blood from, as by opening a vein.
(6):
(v. i.) To withdraw blood from the body; to let blood; as, Dr. A. bleeds in fevers.
(7):
(v. i.) To emit blood; to lose blood; to run with blood, by whatever means; as, the arm bleeds; the wound bled freely; to bleed at the nose.
(8):
(v. i.) To pay or lose money; to have money drawn or extorted; as, to bleed freely for a cause.
(9):
(v. i.) To lose or shed one's blood, as in case of a violent death or severe wounds; to die by violence.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Bleed'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/b/bleed.html. 1828.
