bleed white

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.

Translations

to drain someone of their blood

• Russian: обескро́вить (ru) pf (obeskróvitʹ), обескро́вливать (ru) impf (obeskróvlivatʹ)
• Ukrainian: знекро́влювати impf (znekróvljuvaty), знекро́вити pf (znekróvyty)

to take someone's money

• Greek: ξαιματώνω (xaimatóno)
• Russian: вы́качать все де́ньги pf (výkačatʹ vse dénʹgi), обобра́ть до ни́тки pf (obobrátʹ do nítki)

to cut off supplies

• French: saigner à blanc (fr)
• German: ausbluten (de)

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Translations to be checked

• French: saigner à blanc (fr)
• German: ausbluten (de)