Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular presenttense haemorrhages, present participle haemorrhaging, past tense, past participle haemorrhagedregional note: in AM, use hemorrhage
1. variable noun
A haemorrhage is serious bleeding inside a person's body.
Shortly after his admission into hospital he had a massive brain haemorrhage anddied.
These drugs will not be used if hemorrhage is the cause of the stroke.
2. verb
If someone is haemorrhaging, there is serious bleeding inside their body.
I haemorrhaged badly after the birth of all three of my sons. [VERB]
If this is left untreated, one can actually haemorrhage to death. [VERB]
haemorrhaginguncountable noun
A post mortem showed he died from shock and haemorrhaging.
3. singular noun
A haemorrhage of people or resources is a rapid loss of them from a group or place, seriously weakening its position.
The haemorrhage of our brightest and most devoted doctors and nurses increases. [+ of]
4. verb
To haemorrhage people or resources means to lose them rapidly and become weak. You can also say that people or resources haemorrhage from a place or organization.
Venice is haemorrhaging the very resource which could save it: its own people. [VERB noun]
The figures showed that cash was haemorrhaging from the conglomerate. [VERB + from]
Synonyms: drain, bleed [informal], flow rapidly More Synonyms of haemorrhage
More Synonyms of haemorrhage
haemorrhage in British English
or US hemorrhage (ˈhɛmərɪdʒ)
noun
1.
profuse bleeding from ruptured blood vessels
2.
a steady or severe loss or depletion of resources, staff, etc
verb
3. (intransitive)
to bleed profusely
4. (transitive)
to undergo a steady or severe loss or depletion of (resources, staff, etc)
Derived forms
haemorrhagic or US hemorrhagic (ˌhɛməˈrædʒɪk)
adjective
Word origin
C17: from Latin haemorrhagia; see haemo-, -rrhagia
Examples of 'haemorrhage' in a sentence
haemorrhage
She died from a brain haemorrhage last week.
The Sun (2017)
But my wife had a brain haemorrhage and died suddenly.
The Sun (2016)
Signs of an internal haemorrhage?
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
My first wife died five years ago from a brain haemorrhage at 40. She passed away beside me in bed.
The Sun (2016)
The wrist wound may not have been big enough for blood loss to prompt death by haemorrhage.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
She died in hospital after suffering a brain haemorrhage.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Death was due to haemorrhage from shock consequent on the injuries.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
She sustained and supported him in the ten years following his brain haemorrhage.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
What would you do after recovering from a potentially fatal brain haemorrhage?
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Stress or a minor knock could cause a haemorrhage and kill her.
The Sun (2011)
Doctors said he suffered a cerebral haemorrhage.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
She died surrounded by her family after suffering a brain haemorrhage.
The Sun (2011)
The women also at risk haemorrhage and potentially fatal blood clots.
The Sun (2010)
Doctors said that she had suffered a haemorrhage caused by an aggressive tumour.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Big media companies are haemorrhaging cash.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
They also become especially prone to damage and clot formation, leading to cerebral haemorrhage and stroke.
Shreeve, Dr Caroline M Lower Your Blood Pressure in 4 Easy Stages (1989)
She died gently, from an internal haemorrhage.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Then he died suddenly a year ago, after suffering a massive brain haemorrhage.
The Sun (2014)
Experts say that boosting increases potential for a stroke, brain haemorrhage or death.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
In hospital, doctors removed two litres of blood from an internal haemorrhage.
The Sun (2013)
Some public buildings have been beautifully restored and floodlit, but the sense of place is haemorrhaging away.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
He was admitted to a ward containing confirmed cases, alongside patients who were vomiting and haemorrhaging to death.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The cost to firms of haemorrhaging staff is huge, not just in recruiting and replacing new workers but in training them up.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
It is stemming the haemorrhage with incentives for young couples, the building of a new university complex and strenuous attempts to hook western investment.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
In other languages
haemorrhage
British English: haemorrhage NOUN
A haemorrhage is serious bleeding inside a person's body.
He had a massive brain haemorrhage and died.
American English: hemorrhage
Brazilian Portuguese: hemorragia
Chinese: 严重内出血
European Spanish: hemorragia
French: hémorragie
German: Blutung
Italian: emorragia
Japanese: 出血
Korean: 출혈
European Portuguese: hemorragia
Latin American Spanish: hemorragia
Chinese translation of 'haemorrhage'
haemorrhage
or (US) hemorrhage
(ˈhɛmərɪdʒ)
n(c/u)
出血 (chūxiě)
vi
出血 (chūxiě)
to have a brain haemorrhage大脑(腦)内(內)出血 (dànǎo nèichūxiě)
(noun)
Definition
heavy bleeding from ruptured blood vessels
The move would stem the haemorrhage of talent from the area.
Synonyms
drain
outpouring
rapid loss
(verb)
Definition
to bleed heavily
cash was haemorrhaging from the conglomerate
Synonyms
drain
Deficits drain resources from the pool of national savings.
bleed (informal)
They mean to bleed the common people dry.
flow rapidly
Additional synonyms
in the sense of bleed
Definition
to obtain money, etc., from (someone), esp. by extortion