Scrabble?! BLEED

Definitions of BLEED in various dictionaries:

verb - lose blood from one's body

verb - draw blood

verb - get or extort (money or other possessions) from someone

verb - be diffused

verb - drain of liquid or steam

To emit or lose blood.

To be wounded, especially in battle.

To feel sympathetic grief or anguish: My heart bleeds for the victims of the air crash.

To exude a fluid such as sap.

To pay out money, especially an exorbitant amount.

To run together or be diffused, as dyes in wet cloth.

To undergo or be subject to such a diffusion of color: The madras skirt bled when it was first washed.

To show through a layer of paint, as a stain or resin in wood.

To be printed so as to go off the edge or edges of a page after trimming.

To take or remove blood from.

To extract sap or juice from.

To draw liquid or gaseous contents from; drain.

To draw off (liquid or gaseous matter) from a container.

To obtain money from, especially by improper means.

To drain of all valuable resources: “Politicians... never stop inventing illicit enterprises of government that bleed the national economy” (David A.

To cause (an illustration, for example) to bleed.

To trim (a page, for example) so closely as to mutilate the printed or illustrative matter.

Illustrative matter that bleeds.

A page trimmed so as to bleed.

Later in Old English this o changed to K, pro noun ced like the a in labor, eventually becoming like the e in bee by 1500.

verb - to lose blood