bleed dry

English

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To wait until all the blood of (a slaughtered animal) has drained off.

   Slaughtered livestock is usually bled dry prior to butchering.

2. (transitive, figuratively, informal) To bleed white.

Translations

to wait until all an animal's blood has drained off

• German: ausbluten lassen
• Russian: обескро́вить (ru) pf (obeskróvitʹ), обескро́вливать (ru) impf (obeskróvlivatʹ)

to bleed white — see bleed white