Meanings
verbbleed white (third-person singular simple present bleeds white, present participle bleeding white, simple past and past participle bled white)
present singular third person bleeds white · participle present bleeding white · participle past bled white · past bled white
- figurativelyinformaltransitiveTo cause life-threatening hardship through deprivation of essential resources.
France had been bled white by the war.
1948, Winston Churchill, The Gathering Storm, Houghton Mifflin, published 1948, page 11
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo drain of blood extensively.
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Translations
French saigner à blanc
- saigner à blancto cut off supplies
German ausbluten
- ausblutento cut off supplies
Greek ξαιματώνω
- ξαιματώνω (xaimatóno)to take someone's money
Russian обескро́вить, обескро́вливать
- обескро́вить (obeskróvitʹ)to drain someone of their blood
- обескро́вливать (obeskróvlivatʹ)to drain someone of their blood
- вы́качать все де́ньги (výkačatʹ vse dénʹgi)to take someone's money
- обобра́ть до ни́тки (obobrátʹ do nítki)to take someone's money
Ukrainian знекро́влювати, знекро́вити
- знекро́влювати (znekróvljuvaty)to drain someone of their blood
- знекро́вити (znekróvyty)to drain someone of their blood
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Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bleed white,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bleed%20white.
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