Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Preterit and past participle of bleed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- imp. & p. p. of
bleed .
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- noun
Hinterland ,field . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
bleed .
Etymologies
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Examples
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&c. -- When persons of fashion are bled, their friends send them, as soon as it is known, little presents to amuse them all that day; for which reason, the women of easy virtue are often bled, that their lovers may shew their attention, and be _bled too_.
A Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, 1777 Volume 1 (of 2) Philip Thicknesse 1755
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His face was covered with blood and dirt, for his nose had bled from the fall; an old hat, which his pirate-fisherman had given him in place of a very good one they took, had been torn at the same time, and seemed only half a hat; his great coat was gone, and his coat was French; his waistcoat being the only part of his dress that was the same as he brought from Quebec.
The Old Manor House 1793
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The man from the lightlessness in the backseat: Your middle name bled out and froze in the fibers of the carseat or the floor.
THE BASTARDS ARE TRYING TO KEEP THE WORLD OF AIR INSIDE YOUR LUNGS SEPARATE FROM THE AIR OUTSIDE YOUR LUNGS sam pink 2009
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A year later, the Craigs 'Tossofthecoin bled from the lungs and finished last.
Fore, right! Union-Tribune 2010
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A year later, the Craigs 'Tossofthecoin bled from the lungs and finished last.
Fore, right! Union-Tribune 2010
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A year later, the Craigs 'Tossofthecoin bled from the lungs and finished last.
Fore, right! Union-Tribune 2010
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You have probably never seen any one bled, which is a pity, as it happens; for if you had, you might have noticed (provided you had had the courage to look into the basin), that after a few seconds, the blood which had been taken away separated itself of its own accord into two portions; the one a yellowish transparent liquid, the other an opaque red mass floating on the top, and which is called the
The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals Jean Mac�� 1854
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For some colours 'bled' from the words, giving them an aura of sorts that helped them with spelling, structure and so forth.
Synesthesia: the Flavor of Music, the Color of Touch Heather McDougal 2007
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A few Fridays ago I wrote about JMT/AOTP fatigue because many of the releated albums didn't really stand out from each other either sonically, lyrically or thematically so they all kind of bled together into one long continous LP over the Summer and into the Fall.
What's New In Dart's iPod #55 AKA Brother, Can You Spare Some Change? Dart Adams 2008
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If the positions of cylinder and piston be reversed, the piston pointing vertically upward and the sand "bled" into an orifice in or through it, the void caused by the outflow of this sand would be filled by sand displaced by the piston pressing upward rather than by sand from above.
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