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bleed

1. bleed \'ble-d\ \'bled\ vb or bled;  or bleed.ing [ME bleden, fr. OE 
   ble-dan, fr. blo-d blood] 1a: to emit or lose blood  1b: to sacrifice one's 
   blood esp. in battle  2: to feel anguish, pain, or sympathy {his heart ~s 
   for you)> 3: to escape by or as if by oozing or flowing from a wound  4: to 
   give up some constituent (as sap or dye) by exuding or diffusing it  5a: to 
   pay out or give money  5b: to have money extorted  6: to be printed so as 
   to run off one or more edges of a printed page or s heet after trimming - 
   often used with off 1: to remove or draw blood from  2: to get or extort 
   money from  3: to draw sap from (a tree)  4a: to extract or let out some or 
   all of a contained substance from {@ a tire} 4b: to extract or cause to 
   escape from a container  5: to cause (as a printed illustration) to bleed; 
   also : to trim ( as a page) so that some of the printing bleeds
2. bleed n : an illustration or a page that bleeds or is bled; also : the 
   par t trimmed off in bleeding or the corresponding area of the printing 
   plate