Meaning

2 senses

  1. (transitive)To bleed more than; to lose more blood than.

  2. (figuratively, transitive)To win (a battle) by being willing to accept more casualties or injuries.

Origin

From out- + bleed.

From out- + bleed.

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Forms

outbleeds, outbleeding, outbled, outbled
Base formoutbleed · to outbleed
3rd person singularoutbleeds
Present participleoutbleeding
Past simpleoutbled
Past participleoutbled

irregular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyoutbleed
he, she, itoutbleeds

Past simpleLesson

all personsoutbled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave outbled
he, she, ithas outbled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill outbleed

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
outbackB2outbidoutboardoutbreakB2
outbleed — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto