bleed out

• bleed-out

bleed out (plural bleed outs)

1. (medicine, informal) An instance of exsanguination or of major blood loss.
2. (figurative) 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.

bleed out (third-person singular simple present bleeds out, present participle bleeding out, simple past and past participle bled out)

1. (intransitive) To die due to excess bloodloss; to bleed to death.
   • 2013, Anthony Swofford, Death of an American Sniper, →ISBN:

     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. (transitive) To kill by causing such bloodloss.
3. (intransitive, figurative) To leak out; to spread.

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

• exsanguinate

• exsanguination
• hypovolemia

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