haemorrhage

noun

/ˈhemərɪdʒ/

(British English)

(North American English hemorrhage)

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[countable, uncountable] a medical condition in which there is severe loss of blood from a damaged blood vessel inside a person’s body
- a massive brain/cerebral haemorrhage
- He was checked for any signs of haemorrhage.
- The patient died from acute cerebral haemorrhage.
Topics Illnessc2
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- massive
- severe
- fatal
- …
verb + haemorrhage/hemorrhage
- have
- suffer
- die from
- …
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[countable, usually singular] haemorrhage (of somebody/something) a serious loss of people, money, etc. from a country, a group or an organization
- Poor working conditions have led to a steady haemorrhage of qualified teachers from our schools.
- The newspaper sold its websites in a bid to stem the haemorrhage of cash from the business.

Word Originlate 17th cent. (as a noun): alteration of obsolete haemorrhagy, via Latin from Greek haimorrhagia, from haima ‘blood’ + the stem of rhēgnunai ‘burst’.

haemorrhage

verb

/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/

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[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.
[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’.