And when cooking beets, always leave a bit of the root, so the color doesn't bleed.

The colors of nature's great tapestry, it seems, are bleeding into one another.

To refer to this effect, people first start talking about colors and illumination, then they use the phrase "color bleed".

If no color bleeds from the garment, you may be able to wash it.

Then the colors bled away and in three seconds she was white-blond.

An expert might say the colors bleed too much.

Other times, the fabrics are changed because the colors bleed.

In places, the colors had bled onto the pale beach, which was strewn with rocks.

The colors should not bleed or be darker at the base of the pile.

The sky itself turned hazy, all color bled away.