We'll make now an incision on the bark of the pine for it to bleed.A continuación, practicamos una incisión en la corteza del pino para que exude la resina.

3. (to run)

a. correrse (color or text)

There was a red T-shirt in the washer, and red bled into the white clothes.Había una remera roja en la lavadora y el rojo se corrió a la ropa blanca.

4. (to feel compassion)

a. partirse (one's soul or heart)

My soul started bleeding for little Hannah when I heard her story.Se me partió el alma cuando escuché la historia de la pequeña Hannah.

A transitive verb is a verb that requires a direct object (e.g. I bought a book.).

transitive verb

5. (medicine)

a. sangrar

Patients were bled with leeches as a curative method not so long ago.No hace mucho, a los enfermos se les sangraba con sanguijuelas como método curativo.

6. (to draw liquid from)

a. purgar (radiator or brakes)

We always bleed the radiators at the beginning of winter.Siempre purgamos los radiadores cuando comienza el invierno.

A word or phrase that is commonly used in conversational speech (e.g. skinny, grandma).

(colloquial)

(to drain of money)

a. sangrar

The government is bleeding us with all these taxes.El gobierno nos está sangrando con todos estos impuestos.

bleed

A transitive verb is a verb that requires a direct object (e.g. I bought a book.).

transitive verb

1. (medicine)

a. sangrar

2. (radiator)

a. purgar

3. (fig)

to bleed somebody drychupar la sangre a alguien

An intransitive verb is one that does not require a direct object (e.g. The man sneezed.).

intransitive verb

4. (general)

a. sangrar

his nose is bleedingle sangra la nariz

to bleed to deathmorir desangrado(a)

bleed [bliːd] bled (past)

intransitive verb

1 (from cut, wound) sangrar; [+tree] exudar

his nose is bleeding le sangra la nariz; to bleed to death morir desangrado; my heart bleeds for him ¡qué pena me da!

2 [+colours] diluirse;into en; correrse;into en

The two colours will bleed into each other, creating softly blurred forms The colouring pigments from the skin are not allowed to bleed into the grape juice

transitive verb

1 (Med) sangrar

2 [+brakes, radiator] desaguar; sangrar

3 (exploit) desangrar; sacar los cuartos a (informal); (Esp)

to bleed sb dry or white chupar la sangre a algn

to bleed a country dry or white explotar despiadadamente un país

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Conjugations

Participles

Present:	bleeding
Past:	bled

Indicative

	Present	Past	Future
I	bleed	bled	will bleed
you	bleed	bled	will bleed
he/she	bleeds	bled	will bleed
we	bleed	bled	will bleed
you	bleed	bled	will bleed
they	bleed	bled	will bleed