hemorrhage
/ˈhɛm(ə)ɹɪd͡ʒ/ noun, verb
Forms hemorrhages hemorrhaging hemorrhaged haemorrhage hæmorrhage
- noun A heavy release of blood within or from the body. “We got news that he died of a hemorrhage.”
- noun (figurative) A sudden or significant loss. “the fiscal hemorrhage that has resulted from financial globalization”
- verb (intransitive) To bleed copiously. “The patient is hemorrhaging!”
- verb (transitive, figuratively) To lose (something) in copious and detrimental quantities. “The company hemorrhaged money until eventually it went bankrupt.”
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Etymology
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”); see ῥήγνῡμῐ (rhḗgnūmĭ) for more.
Webster’s 1913
Etymology [L. haemorrhagia, Gr. hémorriage, hémorrhagie.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “hemorrhage”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details