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WordBand 6.5–8Academic (NAWL)
bleed
/ˈbliːd/
verb1 of 2
to lose blood because of an injury
- “He punched me in the nose, causing it to bleed.”Tatoeba
- “Put direct pressure on the wound to stop the bleeding.”Tatoeba
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noun2 of 2
A narrow edge around a page layout, to be printed but cut off afterwards (added to allow for slight misalignment, especially with pictures that should run to the edge of the finished sheet).
Source: New Academic Word List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)