What is "bled dry"

Usage examples of "bled dry".

He felt no grief at the man's passing, just frustration because the body had already been bled dry by the vampire who'd left him here to die.

Hathui's face drained to white, bled dry, and she sank down onto the fallen stone with a grimace of pain.

One, a young streetwalker, was deadgenuinely dead, having bled dry from tooth-holes in her neck.

Needless to say, our own backers are bled dry at this point as well, and there is unrest and there has even been some rioting in areas where critical shortages have developed due to us.

From the caked places on the dead woman's clothes, Kel guessed that she had taken a number of wounds during the attack, and had bled dry as the raiders fled.

What shameful Whitehall records might we not have uncovered of hideous episodes in India, in Egypt, in Malaya, inv South Africa, in fact wherever British imperialism carried the Union Jack, and British arms brutally suppressed native populations which resisted being bled dry for Anglo-Saxon enrichment?

She felt sickened, bled dry by the constant privations and threats which they had faced.

And when I turned I saw him white and bled dry and like a great husk of himself.