hemorrhage

• (Commonwealth English) haemorrhage

From Latin haemorrhagia, from Ancient Greek αἱμορραγία (haimorrhagía, “a violent bleeding”), from αἱμορραγής (haimorrhagḗs, “bleeding violently”), from αἷμα (haîma, “blood”) + -ραγία (-ragía), from ῥηγνύναι (rhēgnúnai, “to break, burst”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛməɹɪdʒ/

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hemorrhage (countable and uncountable, plural hemorrhages)

1. (American spelling) A heavy release of blood within or from the body.

   We got news that he died of a hemorrhage.

• bleeding

hemorrhage (third-person singular simple present hemorrhages, present participle hemorrhaging, simple past and past participle hemorrhaged) (American spelling)

1. (intransitive) To bleed copiously.

   He's hemorrhaging!

2. (transitive) To lose (something) in copious quantities.

   The company hemorrhaged money until eventually it went bankrupt.

• hemorrhage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• hemorrhage in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• hemorrhage at OneLook Dictionary Search