bleed for
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]bleed for (third-person singular simple present bleeds for, present participle bleeding for, simple past and past participle bled for)
- To feel great sympathy or compassion for; to mourn on account of.
- 1967 July 7, William A. McWhirter, “How Art Swindlers Duped a Virtuous Millionaire”, in LIFE, volume 63, number 1, page 54:
- He bleeds for the Negro, he bleeds for the Jew, he bleeds for the oppressed peoples.
- 2010, Mark A. Bruhwiller, The Last Dog Watch: A Memoir of a Wilful Young Lad, page 108:
- Also, I bleed for the welfare of our children among our growing population of feral underclass.
- 2016, Lawrence Block, In Sunlight or In Shadow:
- Not that I don't care, kid. Not that I don't bleed for you. But again, I'm seventy-four.
- To suffer when fighting for.
- 1896, The Methodist Review - Volume 78, page 787:
- 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.
- 1898, Khalīl Saʻādah, Caesar & Cleopatra, page 318:
- Cæsar will bleed for Cleopatra, but Cleopatra, in her turn, must bleed for Cæsar.
- 1914, Heinrich von Treitschke, Treitschke, His Life and Works, page 237:
- 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!"
- 2005, Anthony Pepe, “ReCognition”, in ... That Defines the Light, page 26:
- How many times must I bleed for you before you see, that I would die for you How many times must I bleed for you before I see, that I am dying for you
- To receive corporal or capital punishment for.
- 1802, Hymns for Public Worship, page 48:
- The contrite hears, he hears, and lives; Bleeds for his crimes, and heav'n forgives;
- 1860, The Chorus, Or, A Collection of Choruses and Hymns:
- He dies — the friend of sinners dies—Oh, how he bleeds for me, Lo!
- 1892, The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary, page 42:
- "So Benaiah went up and slew him." Joab must have been old and infirm at this time; and now he bleeds for Abner, he bleeds for Amasa, and he bleeds for Uriah.