Bleed and Short

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Bleed verb - To rob by the use of trickery or threats.

Usage example: the confidence men coldheartedly bled the elderly couple of their life savings

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Short and bleed are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Short" instead a verb "Bleed".

Nearby Words: bleeding, bleeder

Short verb - To rob by the use of trickery or threats.

Usage example: charged that the used-car dealer had been shorting customers for years

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Bleed and short are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Bleed" instead a verb "Short".

The most noticeable edit: Allen Payne's shot to the head is cut short even though he doesn't bleed.

Source: Bowdlerise / Film
But you positively cheer for her when she subjects Evil Matriarch Sonia to a short yet brutal Break Them by Talking and leaves her out there to bleed to death.

Source: Kick the Son of a Bitch
A short trip east of Diamond City is Hubris Comics, where you find Grognak's Axe, which causes bleed damage and increased stagger, and has an unusually low AP cost for a two-handed melee weapon.

Source: Disc One Nuke / Fallout

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