hemorrhage
Americannoun
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hemorrhages
plural
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a profuse discharge of blood, as from a ruptured blood vessel; bleeding.
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the loss of assets, especially in large amounts.
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any widespread or uncontrolled loss or diffusion.
verb (used without object)
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to bleed profusely.
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to lose assets, especially in large amounts.
verb (used with object)
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Etymology
Origin of hemorrhage
1665–75; < Latin haemorrhagia < Greek haimorrhagía. See hemo-, -rrhagia
Explanation
Medically speaking, a hemorrhage is a rapid loss of blood. If you fall and hit your head really hard, the doctors will check to see there's no cerebral hemorrhage, or bleeding in your brain. Hemorrhage is pronounced HEM-or-edge. Blame the Greeks for the funny spelling, because like many medical terms, this one comes from Greek roots. Besides the medical meaning, we use hemorrhage to mean the uncontrollable loss of other things. If sudden disaster is making you hemorrhage money, you'll have to cut back on fancy dinners and new shoes. Can I recommend frozen pizza?
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The improvement was most noticeable among patients with intracerebral hemorrhage and subarachnoid hemorrhage, two types of bleeding strokes that can be particularly dangerous.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
In March 2024, 16-year-old Shaylee Mejia died after she suffered a brain hemorrhage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2026
French reports said that Macron appeared to have a sub-conjunctival hemorrhage, which is a broken blood vessel in his eye.
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2026
Doctors found that he had suffered a subarachnoid hemorrhage resulting from a ruptured brain aneurysm.
From Slate ● Dec. 8, 2025
Or what if it was something ordinary, a common crisis, and she panicked, froze, failed to stop the hemorrhage in time?
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
Certain neurological conditions, including strokes and brain hemorrhages, demand immediate medical attention.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 10, 2026
Monoclonal antibodies that are indicated for the early treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, for example, have a risk of brain hemorrhages and bleeds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026
Fluffy white clouds and red hemorrhages, the work of cytomegalovirus, bloomed across patients’ retinas until they went blind.
From Slate ● Jan. 31, 2025
And then, on one random Wednesday, my left eye hemorrhages and fills with blood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2024
As Alexei grew older, and the hemorrhages more life threatening, Alexandra began to rely on a Russian monk of legendary unctuousness, Grigory Rasputin, who promised to heal the czar-to-be.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
But as this upstart took on the PGA Tour, LIV struggled to gain a commercial foothold and hemorrhaged money after teeing off in 2022.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
The early days were rife with failure and the operation hemorrhaged money.
From Barron's ● May 20, 2026
Like so many legacy media companies, it hemorrhaged money as it proved slow to adjust to the digital revolution.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2025
For almost 90 miles, he pushed the other plane as both jets hemorrhaged fuel, until they crossed the border with Laos.
From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2023
They had both hemorrhaged badly, and blood plasma was in short supply our needs being low on the wartime priority list.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
Furthermore, Apple’s focus on hardware would have made good business sense even if the frontier AI labs weren’t hemorrhaging cash, and even if those labs had found lots of profitable commercial applications for their models.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 2, 2026
The court documents claim that the former chef suffered severe hemorrhaging again on Feb. 8 and collapsed in her bathroom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
Misoprostol has been available by prescription for decades as a treatment for stomach ulcers and to manage postpartum hemorrhaging.
From BBC ● May 1, 2026
Clearing the uterus is standard care to stop hemorrhaging; misoprostol would only make the bleeding worse, they said.
From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2026
First, Mr. Kleiman, our merry sunshine, had another bout of gastrointestinal hemorrhaging yesterday and will have to stay in bed for at least three weeks.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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