"bleed dry" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: bleeds dry [present, singular, third-person], bleeding dry [participle, present], bled dry [participle, past], bled dry [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|bleed<,,bled> dry}} bleed dry (third-person singular simple present bleeds dry, present participle bleeding dry, simple past and past participle bled dry)
  1. (transitive) To wait until all the blood of (a slaughtered animal) has drained off. Tags: transitive Translations (to wait until all an animal's blood has drained off): ausbluten lassen (German), обескро́вить (obeskróvitʹ) [perfective] (Russian), обескро́вливать (obeskróvlivatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-bleed_dry-en-verb-IbIuNqgF Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 45 55 Disambiguation of "to wait until all an animal's blood has drained off": 92 8
  2. (transitive, figuratively, informal) To bleed white. Tags: figuratively, informal, transitive
    Sense id: en-bleed_dry-en-verb-Yld5lNw9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 45 55

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for bleed dry meaning in English (2.2kB)

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