bleed out meaning (informal): definition, quotations

bleed out

noun

Medicine, Sciences Informal An instance of exsanguination or of major blood loss.

There are shootings, stabbings, car wrecks, falls and other accidents that can create a fatal bleed out situation.2023 December 3, David Martin Davies, “Stopping the bleed out to save lives”, in Texas Public Radio, archived from the original on 21 Feb 2024:

Figuratively 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.

verb

To die due to excess blood loss; to bleed to death.

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.2013, Anthony Swofford, Death of an American Sniper, →ISBN:

To kill by causing such bloodloss.

Figuratively To leak out; to spread.

Most slang begins in small communities, but some words bleed out into wider society over time.