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Turned white with pain, having spilled blood all around (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

bleached

'turned white' is the definition.
(bleaching is a kind of turning white)

'pain having spilled blood all around' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'pain' could be 'ache' (ache is a kind of pain) and 'ache' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'bled' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

'with' is the link.

(Other definitions for bleached that I've seen before include "Paled" , "Chemically whitened" , "Whitened or removed colour from" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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