bleed for

Definitions

1. 1

   To feel great sympathy or compassion for

   To feel great sympathy or compassion for; to mourn on account of.

   • 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.
2. 2

   To suffer when fighting for.

   • 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.
3. 3

   To receive corporal or capital punishment for.

   • The contrite hears, he hears, and lives; Bleeds for his crimes, and heav'n forgives;
   • He dies — the friend of sinners dies—Oh, how he bleeds for me, Lo!
   • "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.

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