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bleed out

verb

  1. bleed to death
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Wiktionary

noun

  1. 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. 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

  1. 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. To kill by causing such bloodloss.
  3. To leak out; to spread.

    Most slang begins in small communities, but some words bleed out into wider society over time.

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