hemorrhage

• haemorrhage (Commonwealth English)
• hæmorrhage (obsolete)

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): /ˈhɛm(ə)ɹɪd͡ʒ/

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hemorrhage (countable and uncountable, plural hemorrhages) (American spelling)

1. A heavy release of blood within or from the body.

   We got news that he died of a hemorrhage.

2. (figurative) A sudden or significant loss

   the fiscal hemorrhage that has resulted from financial globalization

• bleeding
• bleed
• hemorrhea (dated, uncommon)

• hematoma

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, figuratively) To lose (something) in copious and detrimental 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 […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• hemorrhage at OneLook Dictionary Search