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Bleed for

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Verb
  1. 1
    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."

  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."

  3. 3
    To receive corporal or capital punishment for.

    "The contrite hears, he hears, and lives; Bleeds for his crimes, and heav'n forgives;"

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