bleed

Bleed is defined as to lose blood, suffer a wound, ooze or for color to come off or through.

(verb)

An example of bleed is for a scraped knee to ooze blood.
An example of bleed is for the dye on a red shirt to transfer onto a white shirt while washing in hot water.

The definition of a bleed is the part of a printed picture that extends past the margins.

(noun)

An example of a bleed is the extra color around the border of a picture that needs to be trimmed off.

See bleed in Webster's New World College Dictionary

intransitive verb bled , bleeding

to emit or lose blood
to suffer wounds or die in a battle or cause
to feel pain, grief, or sympathy; suffer
to ooze; esp., to ooze sap, juice, etc., as bruised plants
to run together, as dyes in wet cloth
to come through a covering coat of paint, as certain stains
to be printed to the edge of a page, wrapper, etc. so that a part is later trimmed off: said of pictures, designs, etc.

Origin: ME bleden < OE bledan < blod, blood < IE *bhlē-, var. of base *bhel-, to swell > ball, bloom

transitive verb

to draw blood from; leech
to ooze (sap, juice, etc.)
☆ to take sap or juice from
1. to empty slowly of liquid, air, or gas
2. to draw off (liquid, air, or gas) slowly
1. to print (a picture, design, etc.) so that a small part at the edge is cut off when the paper is trimmed
2. to trim (a page) so as to bleed some of the printed matter
Informal to get money from, esp. by extortion

noun

the part of a printed picture, design, etc. that overruns the margin to be trimmed

See bleed in American Heritage Dictionary 4

verb bled bled (blĕd), bleed·ing, bleeds

verb, intransitive

To emit or lose blood.
To be wounded, especially in battle.
To feel sympathetic grief or anguish: My heart bleeds for the victims of the air crash.
To exude a fluid such as sap.
To pay out money, especially an exorbitant amount.
a. To run together or be diffused, as dyes in wet cloth.
b. To undergo or be subject to such a diffusion of color: The madras skirt bled when it was first washed.
To show through a layer of paint, as a stain or resin in wood.
To be printed so as to go off the edge or edges of a page after trimming.

verb, transitive

a. To take or remove blood from.
b. To extract sap or juice from.
a. To draw liquid or gaseous contents from; drain.
b. To draw off (liquid or gaseous matter) from a container.
a. To obtain money from, especially by improper means.
b. To drain of all valuable resources: “Politicians . . . never stop inventing illicit enterprises of government that bleed the national economy” (David A. Stockman).
a. To cause (an illustration, for example) to bleed.
b. To trim (a page, for example) so closely as to mutilate the printed or illustrative matter.