"bleed" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can be used as a verb to describe the loss of blood from an injured person/animal, or it can be used as a metaphor to describe a person's emotional suffering. Example: The young boy's heart was bleeding as he said goodbye to his best friend.
Crucial shots at point-blank range, suddenly discovering that my tech was the only person who could damage high-armour enemies because of his energy rifle, watching my medic bleed out covered in giant rabbits.
Without looting skills, my party can't afford ammo, or armour, or medical kits; they bleed out for lack of cash.
Maggie Thatcher put the knife in and they just left us to bleed to death".
Even Haneke would approve of the suffering of Tim Roth in Reservoir Dogs, taking the entire film to bleed out through his stomach, as messily and agonizingly as you could wish for – and a deliberate rebuke to the casualness of bullet-wounds in every other movie you've seen.
"This is about showing the contrast between good and evil" and to counter the "slow bleed of encouragement" that the government gives to "radical" groups like CAIR.
A 55-year-old woman suffered a massive bleed into her lung after falling on to her sofa while playing Wii tennis and a seven-year-old boy lost the sight in one eye after he struck it with a remote.
From not being able to afford sanitary pads or tampons to being hidden away while they bleed, the impact can be devastating.
The dazed 25-year-old was ordered off the park again later in the opening half when the wound started to bleed again.
In proving the old adage about semi-finals rarely being entertaining contests, Ayr United and Kilmarnock served up a 120-minute encounter that in spells could have made the eyes bleed.
I'm certainly not supposed to use the word "bleed" or "blood".
"For many years, we fought in the creeks because we were sidelined even though Nigeria's wealth comes from here," said Wilson, thumping a fist on a desk cluttered with awards – mostly from organisations he funds with money the government pays him not to bleed oil pipelines.
