v. Obs. [f. FOR- pref.1 + BLEED. Cf. Ger. verbluten.] In pa. pple. Forbled: exhausted with bleeding; covered with blood.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 24395 (Cott.). Quen þat mi sun was al for-bled.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), VII. 35. He was idrawe al aboute þe feeldes … al forbled.
1470–85. Malory, Arthur, X. xxx. Sir Tristram waxte faynte and forbledde.
1496. Dives & Paup. (W. de W.), VI. xv. 257/2. He sente home his sharte full of woundes and of holes and all forbleded to his wyfe with a lettre.
1535. Stewart, Cron. Scot. (1858), I. 306.
| And all the laif, rycht bludie and forbled, | |
| Tha left the feild on force that tyme and fled. |
