bleedout (pluralbleed outs)
- (medicine, informal) An instance ofexsanguination or of major blood loss.
2023 December 3, David Martin Davies, “Stopping the bleed out to save lives”, inTexas Public Radio[1], archived fromthe original on21 February 2024:There are shootings, stabbings, car wrecks, falls and other accidents that can create a fatalbleed out situation.
- (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.
bleedout (third-person singular simple presentbleeds out,present participlebleeding out,simple past and past participlebled out)
- (intransitive) Todie due to excessbloodloss; tobleedto 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 tobleed out and die a little slower, maybe think about all the ways he might have lived a different and better life.
- (transitive) Tokill by causing such bloodloss.
- (intransitive, figurative) Toleak out; tospread.
Most slang begins in small communities, but some wordsbleed out into wider society over time.
die due to excess bloodloss
