BLEEDS Synonyms: 177 Similar and Opposite Words

bleeds

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present tense third-person singular of bleed

as in grieves

to feel deep sadness or mental pain her heart bleeds for the homeless people she sees on her way to work

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as in drips

to flow forth slowly through small openings pitch was bleeding from cuts in the tree bark

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as in drains

to remove (liquid) gradually or completely bleed water from the radiators

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as in squeezes

to rob by the use of trickery or threats the confidence men coldheartedly bled the elderly couple of their life savings

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Recent Examples of bleeds Fat Joe bleeds Knicks blue, so he is treated like royalty in the Garden, and there’s nothing that a billionaire or A-lister can do about it. —

Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 19 May 2026 And this sense of mutual alienation, of being neither here nor there, that Franny and Elliott live with suggests that the political is no longer seen from a potentially abstract place and finally bleeds into realm of the personal. —

Lé Baltar, IndieWire, 17 May 2026 Sunlight bleeds in from the window where the sun is setting over the Venice Canals. —

Maddie Connors, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2026 The old media world is dying, and while that gloomy vigil bleeds into yet another dark hour, somewhere in the same hospital there’s a new world that’s about to be dragged into the light. —

Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 1 May 2026 Referencing Gandhi's observation that life is one indivisible whole, Esposito argues that a broken home life bleeds into workplace performance, while a struggling community erodes the stability of every family within it. —

William Jones, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2026 Stassen may rub elbows with Lakers royalty every so often, but the native Chicagoan still bleeds Chicago Bulls red. —

Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 23 Apr. 2026 The Republican supermajority is reluctant to stop an unlimited cash flow to an ever-expanding school voucher program that bleeds billions from public schools, despite ample proof of sloppy bookkeeping and zero proof that voucher students’ needs are adequately met. —

Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2026 Healthy balance mentally and physically from an organization standpoint, top down, that bleeds into the operations of what the football team does. —

Joseph Hoyt, Dallas Morning News, 7 Apr. 2026

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The Professor, with only her ex-partner’s cat for company, sits in her decaying apartment and grieves the loss of her relationship and her struggle with infertility.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 May 2026
The film follows a woman who grieves the loss of her mother by secretly attending the funerals of strangers.

— Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Apr. 2026