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bleed

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES bleed/freeze/burn/starve to death ▪ Thousands of people are starving to death. bleeding heart COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN death ▪ He bled to death in 15 minutes. ▪ In real life, Selena ran out of that motel room ...

Usage examples of bleed.

In severe hemorrhages, this quantity should be administered every half hour, until the bleeding is checked.

I had adored Rosalie, and my heart still bled at the thought of our parting.

Was the unfortunate aeronaut slowly bleeding to death, lying there amidst the bushes on that tongue of land?

An Indin burial place had been disturbed, the earth was bleeding from the massacre of birds and gators, and the Mikasukis was afeared that bad spirits of their old enemies might be set loose.

The scar which my late amours had left was still bleeding, and I was glad to think that I should be able to restore the young Marseillaise to the paternal hearth without any painful partings or vain regrets.

Kathleen, had a bleeding capsular angioma removed in April of that same year.

He dreaded being sent back to the Tower even more than he dreaded a beating for stealing illegal passage on the Windship, but if he were allowed to remain in the city, would he not merely end up as a drudge, toiling in sunless chambers for the rest of his life, polishing aumbries, bleeding, broken?

As Yama approached the shrine, fluttering banderoles of all colors bled into the white light, as if it was a window that had turned toward a festival sky.

Knuckles dinged and bleeding, his clothes white, nose filled with plaster dust, he bashed a hole big enough, dropped the hammer and wriggled through, tearing his cape in the process.

I sighed and burned for her in silence, not daring to declare my love, for while the wound of the death of Charlotte was still bleeding I also began to find that women were beginning to give me the cold shoulder.

The Knight Gawain searches for the sword that beheaded John the Baptist, and which magically bleeds every day at noon.

Your bleeding highness with a bedful of bare bibb is His face twitched as a bright idea occurred to him.

Why did he pick at one of the cuts on his legs until it bled, then mix the blood and semen and bring some of it to his mouth, where its odd bleachy, metallic smell almost made him vomit once more?

Your country botcher would only bleed her, and she hasna the strength for that.

However much her heart might bleed over her losses, her vanity as an honest bourgeoise filled her with rebellious thoughts, for she could not admit that she had been in the wrong.