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名詞

bleed out (plural bleed outs)

1. (medicine, informal) An instance of exsanguination or of major blood loss.
   • 2023 December 3, David Martin Davies, “Stopping the bleed out to save lives”, in Texas Public Radio‎, archived from the original on 21 February 2024:

     There are shootings, stabbings, car wrecks, falls and other accidents that can create a fatal bleed out situation.

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.

動詞

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 blood loss; 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.

同意語

• exsanguinate

参考

• exsanguination
• hypovolemia

参照

• “bleed out”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• outbleed