English-French translations for bleed

saigner
Les spéculateurs se gavent sur les contribuables et entendent bien saigner la bête à mort! The speculators are stuffing themselves on taxpayers' money and are clearly set to bleed them dry. Ensuite, il y a eu l’expulsion en masse des Albanais en 1999 et depuis, les blessures de la guerre ne cessent de saigner. Then there was the mass expulsion of the Albanians in 1999, and since then the wounds of the war have been bleeding. Rien non plus sur les causes de la crise qui pousse les États à accepter de faire saigner leurs peuples pour rassurer les marchés financiers. Neither does it mention the causes of the crisis, which is driving the Member States to agree to bleed their populations dry in order to reassure the financial markets.

To lose blood through an injured blood vessel
To let or draw blood from
To take large amounts of money from
To spread from the intended location and stain the surrounding cloth or paper
To remove air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids
To show one's group loyalty by showing in one's blood
To lose sap, gum, or juice
To issue forth, or drop, like blood from an incision
To destroy the environment where another phonological rule would have applied
An incident of bleeding, as in haemophilia
The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended

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