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The definition of a hemorrhage is a rapid loss of blood, usually due to a ruptured blood vessel, or a rapid loss of resources or valuable people.

(noun)

When you rupture a blood vessel while giving birth and start bleeding profusely, this is an example of a hemorrhage.
When a company is losing thousands and thousands of dollars every quarter, this is an example of a hemorrhage of money.

Hemorrhage is defined as to lose large amounts of blood rapidly, or to spend large sums of money rapidly or without control.

(verb)

When you start bleeding a lot due to a ruptured blood vessel in an accident, this is an example of when you hemorrhage.
When you spend thousands of dollars at the mall each week, this is an example of a time when you hemorrhage money.

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See hemorrhage in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

the escape of large quantities of blood from a blood vessel; heavy bleeding

Origin: Fr hémorrhagie < L haemorrhagia < Gr haimorrhagia < haima, blood (see hemo-) + base of rhēgnynai, to break, burst

intransitive verb hemorrhaged, hemorrhaging

to have a hemorrhage

Related Forms:

hemorrhagic adjective

See hemorrhage in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

Excessive discharge of blood from the blood vessels; profuse bleeding.
A copious loss of something valuable: a hemorrhage of corporate earnings.

verb hem·or·rhaged, hem·or·rhag·ing, hem·or·rhag·es

verb, intransitive

To bleed copiously.
To undergo a rapid and sudden loss: a gubernatorial candidate whose popularity hemorrhaged after a disastrous debate.

verb, transitive

To lose (something valuable) rapidly and in quantity: The company was hemorrhaging capital when it was bought by another firm.

Origin:

Origin: From obsolete hemoragie, emorogie

Origin: , from Middle English emorogie

Origin: , from Old French emoragie

Origin: , from Latin haemorrhagia

Origin: , from Greek haimorrhagiā

Origin: : haimo-, hemo-

Origin: + -rrhagiā, -rrhagia

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Related Forms:

hemˌor·rhagˈic (hĕmˌə-răjˈĭk) adjective

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