bled

Meanings

• Verb

  1. To let blood out, as from a wound or a vein, often for therapeutic purposes.

  - "The doctor bled the patient to relieve them of excess blood."
  - "I was bled for an hour to treat my anemia."

• 2. Past tense and past participle of the verb 'bleed'.

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Pronunciation

1. /ˈbled/
   
   
   
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2. /ˈbled/
   
   
   
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Rhymes

Words rhyming with bled
bled , led , read , dead , spread

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Variants

List of all variants of bled that leads to same result
bled , bleed , bleed white , bleeding , bleeds

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Etymology

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Old English bledan, bledan ‘to flow, run’, from blod ‘blood’.

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Trivia

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1. Bled is the name of a town in Slovenia, located at the source of the Radgona River.

2. In medieval Europe, leeches were used to bleed patients to cure various ailments.

3. The term 'bleeding heart' is a metaphor for someone who is overly emotional or compassionate.

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Related Concepts

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1. Phlebotomy: A medical procedure that involves the extraction of blood from a vein or artery, usually for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes.

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Culture

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Bled is a common term in medical contexts, often associated with blood transfusions, phlebotomy, and therapeutic procedures.

How to Memorize "bled"

1. visualize
   

   - Visualize a doctor drawing blood from a patient's arm using a needle.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the word 'bled' with the medical procedure of drawing blood.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Remember the sentence: 'Blood leaves every day' to help memorize the past tense form 'bled'.

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