bleed for
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.72 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To feel great sympathy or compassion for; to mourn on account of.
verb
To receive corporal or capital punishment for.
Example Sentences
- "He bleeds for the Negro, he bleeds for the Jew, he bleeds for the oppressed peoples."
- "Also, I bleed for the welfare of our children among our growing population of feral underclass."
- "Not that I don't care, kid. Not that I don't bleed for you. But again, I'm seventy-four."
- "In great emergencies peoples are saved by men who bleed for the people, who are willing to pay dear and deep for their devotion to righteousness."
- "Cæsar will bleed for Cleopatra, but Cleopatra, in her turn, must bleed for Cæsar."
- "They let the Germans bleed for the freedom of the left bank of the Rhine —including Luxemburg —they loudly boast they have no fatherland, and reserve it to themselves to heap abuse on Germans as slaves, to shout to the German tide-waiters a scornful "merde pour la Prusse!""