bleed out

bleed | American Dictionary

bleed
verb[ I/T ]
us/blid/past tense and past participlebledus/bled/
to lose blood:
[ I ]Before help could reach him, the man bled to death.
[ T ]fig. Because of the taxes, our state is bleeding jobs (= many jobs are leaving).

bleed | Business English

bleed
verb[ I or T ]
uk /bliːd/us
FINANCE, ACCOUNTING
to lose a lot of money, or to make this happen:
The newspaper is bleeding money and is now almost €150 million in the red.
bleed sth from sthThe energy crisis is estimated to be bleeding $1.4 billion a month from the region's economy.
 bleed sb/sth dry
disapproving
to take all or most of the money of a person, organization, country, etc.:
Unfair trade bleeds countries dry through repayments of national debts.

Examples of bleed

bleed
On day 8 after infection, mice were anaesthetized and bled as described below.
On day 42 mice were anaesthetized and bled as described below.
A week after the last dose of antigen, jirds were bled from the retro-orbital plexus and immune sera were isolated.
Dogs were bled at day 0 and then at days 35, 90, 180 and 365 post-vaccination.
The rabbits were bled before the immunizations, and the sera obtained were used for control studies.
Treatment of bleeding following cardiopulmonary bypass in neonates and infants.
Photographs have not been bled to the edges nor trimmed to fit the page format, leaving irritating white strips around them.
Table 2 shows that bleeding takes place on 30-33 % of days on average but with a range of 12-63 % of days.
Bleeding-free interval-any set of one or more consecutive bleeding-free days bounded by bleeding days.
The condition itself carries a relatively good prognosis, with few deaths attributable to bleeding.
The risk for and severity of bleeding complications in elderly patients treated with warfarin.
Acquired haemophillia: an important but often unrecognised cause of bleeding in elderly people.
He also said that he had nasal bleeding and cutting of his forehead 2 weeks earlier and thereafter he had been afraid of dying.
In some cases, there is bleeding and formation of crust.
Small empirical doses given to patients who are bleeding in die early postoperative period (before coagulation data are available) are generally safe and often helpful.
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