bleed out
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bleed out (plural bleed outs)Category:English lemmas#BLEEDOUTCategory:English nouns#BLEEDOUTCategory:English countable nouns#BLEEDOUTCategory:English multiword terms#BLEEDOUTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BLEEDOUTCategory:Pages with entries#BLEED%20OUTCategory:Pages with 1 entry#BLEED%20OUT
- (medicineCategory:en:Medicine#BLEEDOUT, informalCategory:English informal terms#BLEEDOUT) An instance of exsanguination or of major blood loss.
- 2023 December 3, David Martin Davies, “Stopping the bleed out to save lives”, in Texas Public Radio, archived from the original on 21 February 2024:
- There are shootings, stabbings, car wrecks, falls and other accidents that can create a fatal bleed out situation.Category:English terms with quotations#BLEEDOUT
- (figurative) An instance of any system or item that loses its necessary components, such as a machine and its fuel or a company and its money.
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bleed out (third-person singular simple present bleeds out, present participle bleeding out, simple past and past participle bled out)Category:English lemmas#BLEEDOUTCategory:English verbs#BLEEDOUTCategory:English phrasal verbs#BLEEDOUTCategory:English phrasal verbs formed with %22out%22#BLEEDOUTCategory:English multiword terms#BLEEDOUTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BLEEDOUTCategory:Pages with entries#BLEED%20OUTCategory:Pages with 1 entry#BLEED%20OUT
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#BLEEDOUT) To die due to excess blood loss; to bleed to death.
- 2013, Anthony Swofford, Death of an American Sniper, →ISBN:
- But we never got to take the shot I'd been trained to take, that beautiful single shot that takes out a man's head, or the gutshot—Chris Kyle's favorite—that allows him to bleed out and die a little slower, maybe think about all the ways he might have lived a different and better life.Category:English terms with quotations#BLEEDOUT
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#BLEEDOUT) To kill by causing such bloodloss.
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#BLEEDOUT, figurative) To leak out; to spread.
- Most slang begins in small communities, but some words bleed out into wider society over time.Category:English terms with usage examples#BLEEDOUT
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- “bleed out”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.