bleed

Other forms of bleed

past tense or participle

bled

present participle

bleeding·

third person

bleeds·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bleed

What does bleed mean?

bleed means "lose blood from one's body". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bleed?

bleed has 1 syllable: bleed. In IPA it is /ˈblid/.

What is another word for bleed?

Close synonyms include shed blood, hemorrhage, leech, phlebotomize, phlebotomise. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bleed a common word?

bleed is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with bleed?

1 word rhymes with bleed. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.