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Bleeding usually means the leakage or loss of blood from the body.

Bleeding, bleed, or bleeder may also refer to:

Bleed (printing), intentionally printing across the expected trim line or edge of the sheet
Bleed, or spill (audio), when audio from one source is picked up by a microphone intended for a different source
Bleed, the presence of surface water on concrete
Bleed air, compressed air taken from gas turbine compressor stages
Bleeder, baseball term for a weakly hit ground ball that goes for a base hit
Bleeder, a gender term for someone who menstruates
Bleeder resistor, which passively discharges a capacitor when it is disconnected or equipment is powered off
Bleeding (computer graphics), a computer graphics term for when a graphic object passes through another in an unwanted manner
Bleeding (roads), a type of pavement distress common in asphalt roads
Bleeding, or capillary action, the ability of a substance (such as blood, ink, or water) to flow in narrow spaces without the assistance of, and in opposition to external forces like gravity
Bleeding, purging air from a radiator, brake line, hydraulic clutch system, fuel line, etc. See Brake bleeding.
Bleeding, the migration by dissolution of a component of a composite, e.g., pigments bleed into some plasticizers
Bleeding order, a relation between rules in linguistics
Bloodletting, a practice once believed to cure diseases

Arts, entertainment, and media

Bleed (video game), an action-oriented platform video game
"Bleed", the emotional transfer between a player and their character during a role-playing game coined by Emily Care Boss