haemorrhage
verb/ˈhemərɪdʒ/
/ˈhemərɪdʒ/
(British English) (North American English hemorrhage)
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they haemorrhage | /ˈhemərɪdʒ/ /ˈhemərɪdʒ/ |
| he / she / it haemorrhages | /ˈhemərɪdʒɪz/ /ˈhemərɪdʒɪz/ |
| past simple haemorrhaged | /ˈhemərɪdʒd/ /ˈhemərɪdʒd/ |
| past participle haemorrhaged | /ˈhemərɪdʒd/ /ˈhemərɪdʒd/ |
| -ing form haemorrhaging | /ˈhemərɪdʒɪŋ/ /ˈhemərɪdʒɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive] to lose blood heavily, especially from a damaged blood vessel inside the body; to have a haemorrhage
- After the operation she started to haemorrhage.
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- [transitive] haemorrhage somebody/something to lose money or people in large amounts at a fast rate
- The company has been haemorrhaging money for months.
Word Originlate 17th cent. (as a noun): alteration of obsolete haemorrhagy, via Latin from Greek haimorrhagia, from haima ‘blood’ + the stem of rhēgnunai ‘burst’.
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