Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to bleed
Participle: bled
Gerund: bleeding
Indicative
Present
| I | bleed |
| you | bleed |
| he;she;it | bleeds |
| we | bleed |
| you | bleed |
| they | bleed |
Perfect
| I | have bled |
| you | have bled |
| he;she;it | has bled |
| we | have bled |
| you | have bled |
| they | have bled |
Past
| I | bled |
| you | bled |
| he;she;it | bled |
| we | bled |
| you | bled |
| they | bled |
Pluperfect
| I | had bled |
| you | had bled |
| he;she;it | had bled |
| we | had bled |
| you | had bled |
| they | had bled |
Future
| I | will bleed |
| you | will bleed |
| he;she;it | will bleed |
| we | will bleed |
| you | will bleed |
| they | will bleed |
Future Perfect
| I | will have bled |
| you | will have bled |
| he;she;it | will have bled |
| we | will have bled |
| you | will have bled |
| they | will have bled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | bleed |
| you | bleed |
| he;she;it | bleed |
| we | bleed |
| you | bleed |
| they | bleed |
Perfect
| I | have bled |
| you | have bled |
| he;she;it | have bled |
| we | have bled |
| you | have bled |
| they | have bled |
Imperfect
| I | bled |
| you | bled |
| he;she;it | bled |
| we | bled |
| you | bled |
| they | bled |
Pluperfect
| I | had bled |
| you | had bled |
| he;she;it | had bled |
| we | had bled |
| you | had bled |
| they | had bled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would bleed |
| you | would bleed |
| he;she;it | would bleed |
| we | would bleed |
| you | would bleed |
| they | would bleed |
Perfect
| I | would have bled |
| you | would have bled |
| he;she;it | would have bled |
| we | would have bled |
| you | would have bled |
| they | would have bled |
Imperative
| you | bleed |
| we | Let's bleed |
| you | bleed |
Verbs conjugated like 'bleed'
betide,
bleed,
breed,
crossbreed,
feed,
meet,
misfeed,
overfeed,
spoon-feed,
underfeed,
boobfeed,
bottle-feed,
breast-feed,
breastfeed,
chestfeed,
cofeed,
counterbleed,
counterfeed,
cross-breed,
forbleed, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'bleed'
bleep,
blend,
breed,
bead,
bebleed,
bed,
beef,
beep,
beer,
belead,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- flow
- spurt, trickle, gush, exude, ooze
- blackmail
- impoverish, strong-arm, confiscate, steal
- drain
- exhaust, reduce, purge
Antonyms
- flow
- halt, stop, cease, fail
- drain
- fill, inundate, replenish, supply
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English bleden, from Old English blēdan (“to bleed”), from Proto-West Germanic *blōdijan, from Proto-Germanic *blōdijaną (“to bleed”), from *blōþą (“blood”).
2. Cognates
3. Cognate with Scots blede, bleid (“to bleed”), Saterland Frisian bläide (“to bleed”), West Frisian bliede (“to bleed”), Dutch bloeden (“to bleed”), Low German blöden (“to bleed”), German bluten (“to bleed”), Danish bløde (“to bleed”), Swedish blöda (“to bleed”). See: Middle English '
bleden', Frisian, Saterlandic 'bläide', Dutch '
bloeden', Low Saxon 'blöden', German, old spelling '
bluten', Danish '
bløde', Swedish '
blöda'.
Verbs referencing "bleed"
Low Saxon blöden, Luxembourgish
bludden, Frisian, Saterlandic bläide.
Sample Sentences
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After the birth of little Harry, however, she had gradually become tranquillized and settled; and every bleeding tie and throbbing nerve, once more entwined with that little life, seemed to become sound and healthful, and Eliza was a happy woman up to the time that her husband was rudely torn from his kind [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] the kitchen, and started, quite amazed at the sight that presented itself:—A young and slender woman, with garments torn and frozen, with one shoe gone, and the stocking torn away from the cut and bleeding foot, was laid back in a deadly swoon upon two chairs. There was the impress of the despised race on her face, yet none could help feeling its mournful and pathetic beauty, while its stony [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] were most extraordinary; and yet a more dejected, heart-broken, wretched creature, it would be difficult to imagine. I never saw such a picture of forlorn affliction and distress of mind. My heart bled for him; and when the tears ran down his cheeks, and he took one of the visitors aside, to ask, with his trembling hands nervously clutching at his coat to detain him, whether there was no hope of [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] life_. ” But Tom, as we see, being a poor, ignorant fellow, whose reading had been confined entirely to the New Testament, could not comfort and solace himself with views like these. His very soul bled within him for what seemed to him the _wrongs_ of the poor suffering thing that lay like a crushed reed on the boxes; the feeling, living, bleeding, yet immortal _thing_, which American state law [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] he fought the dogs right gallantly. He dashed them to right and left, and actually killed three of them with only his naked fists, when a shot from a gun brought him down, and he fell, wounded and bleeding, almost at my feet. The poor fellow looked up at me with manhood and despair both in his eye. I kept back the dogs and the party, as they came pressing up, and claimed him as my prisoner. It was all [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] and Miss Ophelia alone seemed to have any presence of mind; for Marie was in strong hysteric convulsions. At Miss Ophelia's direction, one of the lounges in the parlor was hastily prepared, and the bleeding form laid upon it. St. Clare had fainted, through pain and loss of blood; but, as Miss Ophelia applied restoratives, he revived, opened his eyes, looked fixedly on them, looked earnestly around the [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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It was late at night, and Tom lay groaning and bleeding alone, in an old forsaken room of the gin-house, among pieces of broken machinery, piles of damaged cotton, and other rubbish which had there accumulated.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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“ For this time, to be sure, ” said Cassy; “ but now you 've got his ill will upon you, to follow you day in, day out, hanging like a dog on your throat,—sucking your blood, bleeding away your life, drop by drop. I know the man. ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] ! — electric word ! What is it ? Is there anything more in it than a name—a rhetorical flourish ? Why, men and women of America, does your heart's blood thrill at that word, for which your fathers bled, and your braver mothers were willing that their noblest and best should die ?
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] rock, it was a numb, despairing grasp. Tom sat, like one stunned, at the fire. Suddenly everything around him seemed to fade, and a vision rose before him of one crowned with thorns, buffeted and bleeding. Tom gazed, in awe and wonder, at the majestic patience of the face; the deep, pathetic eyes thrilled him to his inmost heart; his soul woke, as, with floods of emotion, he stretched out his hands [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)