bleed out

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bleed out

noun bleed outs · bleed-out

  1. informal An instance of exsanguination or of major blood loss. There are shootings, stabbings, car wrecks, falls and other accidents that can create a fatal bleed out situation.
  2. figuratively 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.

verb bleeds out · bleeding out · bled out · bleed-out

  1. intransitive To die due to excess blood loss; to bleed to death. 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.
  2. transitive To kill by causing such bloodloss.
  3. figuratively, intransitive To leak out; to spread. Most slang begins in small communities, but some words bleed out into wider society over time.

    Similar: exsanguinate

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verb die due to excess bloodloss

Españoldesangrarse, exangüe
中文失血過多而死 /失血过多而死 shīxuè guòduō ér sǐ
Portuguêsesvair-se em sangue, sangrar até morrer, sangrar até a morte
Françaisse vider de son sang
Deutschverbluten, ausbluten
Ελληνικάαιμορραγώ μέχρι θανάτου aimorragó méchri thanátou
Românăsângera până la moarte
Русскийистека́ть кро́вью istekátʹ króvʹju, исте́чь кро́вью istéčʹ króvʹju
العربيةنَزَفَ حَتَّى الْمَوْت nazafa ḥattā l-mawt

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@misc{bleed_out_2026,
  title = {bleed out},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bleed%20out},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}