Collins English-English Dictionary

bleed [bliːd]

1. 1. vi. [intr] to lose or emit blood

2. 2. vt. [tr] to remove or draw blood from (a person or animal)

3. 3. vi. [intr] to be injured or die, as for a cause or one's country

4. 4. vi. (of plants) to exude (sap or resin), esp from a cut

5. 5. vt. [tr] [Spoken] to obtain relatively large amounts of money, goods, etc, esp by extortion

6. 6. vt. [tr] to draw liquid or gas from (a container or enclosed system)

   to bleed the hydraulic brakes

7. 7. vi. [intr] (of dye or paint) to run or become mixed, as when wet

8. 8. vi. to print or be printed so that text, illustrations, etc, run off the trimmed page

9. 9. vt. [tr] to trim (the edges of a printed sheet) so closely as to cut off some of the printed matter

10. 10. vi. [intr] [civil engineering] [building trades] (of a mixture) to exude (a liquid) during compaction, such as water from cement

11. 11. n [printing] an illustration or sheet trimmed so that some matter is bled

12. 12. n (as modifier)

    a bleed page

13. 13. n [printing] the trimmings of a sheet that has been bled

14. 14. n [Etymology] Old English bledan; see blood