bleed white

bleed white
Synonyms and related words:
ablate, absorb, abuse, assimilate, bleed, burn up, clip, consume, denude, deplete, deplume, despoil, digest, displume, divest, drain, drain of resources, dry, eat, eat up, erode, exhaust, expend, exploit, finish, finish off, flay, fleece, gobble, gobble up, gouge, hold up, ill-use, impose upon, impoverish, ingest, make use of, manipulate, milk, misuse, overcharge, overprice, overtax, pick clean, play on, pluck, presume upon, profiteer, screw, shear, skin, soak, spend, squander, stick, sting, strip, strip bare, stroke, suck dry, surcharge, swallow, swallow up, swindle, take advantage of, use, use ill, use up, victimize, waste away, wear away, work on, work upon

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  • bleed white — ► bleed white drain of wealth or resources. Main Entry: ↑white …   English terms dictionary

  • bleed white — phrasal : to drain or be drained of blood or resources * * * bleed white To drain completely of resources • • • Main Entry: ↑white …   Useful english dictionary

  • bleed white — verb To cause someone hardship by cutting all their supplies off. Besieging the castle will bleed it white and force it to surrender …   Wiktionary

  • bleed white or dry — idi to deplete of all resources, money, etc., as through excessive demands Corruption bled the country white[/ex] …   From formal English to slang

  • bleed white — phrasal to drain of blood or resources …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • bleed white — drain of blood or resources …   English contemporary dictionary

  • bleed — /bleed/, v., bled /bled/, bleeding, n., adj. v.i. 1. to lose blood from the vascular system, either internally into the body or externally through a natural orifice or break in the skin: to bleed from the mouth. 2. (of injured tissue,… …   Universalium

  • white — ► ADJECTIVE 1) of the colour of milk or fresh snow, due to the reflection of all visible rays of light. 2) very pale. 3) relating to a human group having light coloured skin, especially of European ancestry. 4) morally or spiritually pure. 5)… …   English terms dictionary

  • white — [hwīt, wīt] adj. whiter, whitest [ME hwit < OE, akin to Ger weiss, ON hvitr, MDu wit < IE * kweid , to gleam, bright, white > WHEAT, OSlav švěšta, a light, candle] 1. having the color of pure snow or milk; of the color of radiated,… …   English World dictionary

  • bleed — [[t]blid[/t]] v. bled(bled), bleed•ing, 1) pat to lose, discharge, or exude blood 2) bot (of a plant) to exude sap, resin, etc., from a wound 3) tex a) to run or become diffused: The colors bled when the dress was washed[/ex] b) tex to lose or… …   From formal English to slang

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