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as in grieves
to feel deep sadness or mental pain
her heart bleeds for the homeless people she sees on her way to work
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as in drips
to flow forth slowly through small openings
pitch was bleeding from cuts in the tree bark
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as in drains
to remove (liquid) gradually or completely
bleed water from the radiators
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as in squeezes
to rob by the use of trickery or threats
the confidence men coldheartedly bled the elderly couple of their life savings
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Recent Examples of bleeds
In the ballad, the hero is betrayed by his cousin, who bleeds him too severely while administering a blood-letting cure.
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Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Jan. 2026
Others have been seriously injured, ranging from fractured skulls to bleeds on the brain, while one player at Walsall in League Two suffered concussions and seizures in an incident last season.
—Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2025
Jacobsen bleeds orange and blue through every artery.
—Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 6 Dec. 2025
What begins as a return to the familiar quickly spirals into disorientation, as the Upside Down bleeds into reality once again, this time, with the protagonists seeking it out to close it once and for all.
—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2025
Some of this bleeds over into the film, namely via the Wizard and his penchant for inventions like model trains, wind-up toys, and the big metal Wizard mask itself.
—Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2025
The somber nature of the day bleeds into the playable shift, where the usually mouthy heroes abstain from hurling insults and shooting the breeze.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 13 Nov. 2025
Still, life as a restaurant owner bleeds into his day, at least a little.
—Pete Sweeney, Kansas City Star, 23 Oct. 2025
Rimaks achieves this emotion through erosion, from natural fade maps and cloudy indigo bleeds to worn-in whiskers that look authentically aged.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 8 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bleeds
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The annual hand-wringing around whether New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone should be fired is already under way, but that won’t be decided for weeks as the club’s management takes a breath and grieves the club’s latest playoff exit.—
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In Saunders’s afterlife, various spirits join Willie, Lincoln’s eleven-year-old son who has died from typhoid fever, while his father grieves in the crypt.—
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Coffee drips through a metal filter, a slow process that creates a full-bodied cup of coffee.—
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Meanwhile, the needles gather fog into dew, which drips onto the roots.—
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Cold weather drains batteries quickly.—
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The great Amazon in its north drains large areas as does the Parana-River Plate watershed to its south that reaches the Atlantic in the estuary between Argentina and Uruguay, The San Francisco flows north for hundreds of miles before hooking a right and dropping to the Atlantic.—
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As the moon follows an elliptical path, Saturn’s gravity stretches and squeezes it.—
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View gallery - 12 images This recently completed tiny house squeezes a lot of living space into a compact footprint using clever design.—
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And as the university mourns Ward’s death, Self helped to put the win in perspective.—
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The rugged dive bar with more than 70 years of history was destroyed in the Eaton fire, and the community still mourns it.—
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Vera cautions that reactivating Venezuela’s economic growth will be a medium- to-long-term task, but that when the feeling of political change is real, everything flows better, and the feeling of opportunity in the country is real right now.—
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Then, as Venus and the sun move into Aquarius, communication flows more freely, making flirting fun again and conversations easier.—
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The acidity of the juice will hinder the activity of polyphenol oxidase, which pumps the brakes on browning.—
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Middleton isn’t the only celebrity who keeps Gianvito Rossi pumps on constant rotation, either.—
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Suddenly, Jeff Parker plucks a sighing six-note guitar run, dropping his shoulders into a solo section that carries the tune to its swooning conclusion.—
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As Natalie walks away from Shayne, possibly for good, and as Venus and some entity named Gabby lunge for each other, Katie Maloney Schwartz Maloney plucks out her earbuds, pulls her sunglasses off her cunty little bob, closes her copy of The Shards, and packs up her bag.—
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“Bleeds.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bleeds. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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