bleed white

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English

Verb

bleed white (third-person singular simple present bleeds white, present participle bleeding white, simple past and past participle bled white)

  1. (literally) To drain of blood extensively.
    Synonym: exsanguinate
  2. (transitive, figurative, informal) To cause life-threatening hardship through deprivation of essential resources.
    • 1948, Winston Churchill, The Gathering Storm, Houghton Mifflin, published 1948, page 11:
      France had been bled white by the war.

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