Usually means: Seepage of ink beyond borders.
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We found 49 dictionaries that define the word bleed:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. bleed: Merriam-Webster
  2. bleed: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bleed: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bleed: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bleed: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bleed, bleed: Wordnik
  7. bleed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bleed: Wiktionary
  9. bleed: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bleed: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bleed: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. bleed: Dictionary.com
  13. bleed: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bleed: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Bleed (Angel Dust album), Bleed (Film), Bleed (Hot Chelle Rae song), Bleed (Soulfly song), Bleed (audio), Bleed (film), Bleed (printing), Bleed (video game), Bleed: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Bleed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. bleed: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. bleed: Rhymezone
  19. bleed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. bleed: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Bleed: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. bleed: FreeDictionary.org
  23. bleed: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. bleed: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. bleed: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. bleed: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Broadcast Media Terms (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. bleed: CCI Computer
  2. Webopedia (No longer online)
  3. bleed: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. bleed: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. bleed: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bleed: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. bleed, bleed, bleed: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. bleed: The Folk File
  3. bleed: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)
  4. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)
  5. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive, of a person, animal or body part) To shed blood through an injured blood vessel.
verb:  (transitive) To let or draw blood from.
verb:  (transitive) To take large amounts of money from.
verb:  (transitive) To steadily lose (something vital).
verb:  (intransitive, of an ink or dye) To spread from the intended location and stain the surrounding cloth or paper.
verb:  (transitive) To remove air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.
verb:  (transitive) To tap off high-pressure gas (usually air) from a system that produces high-pressure gas primarily for another purpose.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To bleed on; to make bloody.
verb:  (intransitive, copulative, figurative) To show one's group loyalty by showing (its associated color) in one's blood.
verb:  To lose sap, gum, or juice.
verb:  To issue forth, or drop, like blood from an incision.
verb:  (phonology, transitive, of a phonological rule) To destroy the environment where another phonological rule would have applied.
verb:  (publishing, advertising, ambitransitive) To (cause to) extend to the edge of the page, without leaving any margin.
verb:  (finance, intransitive) To lose money.
noun:  An incident of bleeding, as in haemophilia.
noun:  (aviation, usually in the plural) A system for tapping hot, high-pressure air from a gas turbine engine for purposes such as cabin pressurization and airframe anti-icing.
noun:  (printing) A narrow edge around a page layout, to be printed but cut off afterwards (added to allow for slight misalignment, especially with pictures that should run to the edge of the finished sheet).
noun:  (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
noun:  The removal of air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.
noun:  (uncountable, roleplaying games) The phenomenon of in-character feelings affecting a player's feelings or actions outside of the game.

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