1. bleed out - Noun
2. bleed out - Verb
(medicine, informal) An instance of exsanguination or of major blood loss.
(figuratively) An instance of any system or item that loses its necessary components, such as a machine and its fuel or a company and its money.
(intransitive) To die due to excess bloodloss; to bleed to death.
(transitive) To kill by causing such bloodloss.
(intransitive, figuratively) To leak out; to spread.
Most slang begins in small communities, but some words bleed out into wider society over time.
bleed-out
Why do some memories bleed out of nowhere and others stay locked behind doors? Jodi Picoult
Things. Cosas. Things attach themselves like leeches to the human soul, then they bleed out the sweetness and the music and the primordial joy of being unencumbered upon the land. Tom Robbins