Verb
(transitive, now archaic or historical) To extract blood from (a person, part of the body etc.). [from 9th c.]
(intransitive, now archaic or historical) To bleed someone; to extract blood from a person, part of the body etc. for supposed therapeutic purposes, especially by phlebotomy. [from 10th c.]
(figuratively) To make (someone or something) bleed, in a general sense; to cut; to kill. [from 13th c.]
Source: en.wiktionary.org