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bleed
verb
Synonyms and Antonyms of BLEED
1
to feel deep sadness or mental pain <her heart bleeds for the homeless people she sees on her way to work>
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to remove (liquid) gradually or completely <bleed water from the radiators>
Related Words milk; suck; clear, empty, evacuate, exhaust, vacate, vacuate, void; decant, effuse; deplete; clean, flush, purge
Near Antonyms bathe, douse (also dowse), drench, soak, souse, wash, water, wet; deluge, drown, flood, inundate, overflow; submerge, swamp
Antonyms fill
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to rob by the use of trickery or threats <the confidence men coldheartedly bled the elderly couple of their life savings>
Synonyms beat, bilk, bleed, cheat, chisel, chouse, con, cozen, defraud, diddle, do, do in, euchre, fiddle, flimflam, gaff, gyp, hose [slang], hustle, mulct, nobble [British slang], pluck, ream, rip off, rook, screw, shake down, short, shortchange, skin, skunk, squeeze, stick, stiff, sting, sucker, swindle, thimblerig, victimize
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