sangrar

Senses

1. 1.

   to bleed

   to lose blood from the body

2. 2.

   to indent

   to set text in from the margin (typography)

3. 3.

   to drain, to bleed dry

   to extract money or resources from someone/something

Examples

• "O corte no dedo está sangrando muito."

  The cut on my finger is bleeding a lot.

• "Você precisa sangrar o primeiro parágrafo do texto."

  You need to indent the first paragraph of the text.

• "Aquela empresa sangra os funcionários com salários baixos."

  That company bleeds its employees dry with low wages.

Usage

Most commonly used literally for bleeding. In typography, refers to paragraph indentation (common in academic writing). The figurative sense of exploiting/draining is colloquial. Regular -ar verb conjugation.