haemorrhage

See also: hæmorrhage

English

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haemorrhage

Alternative forms

hemorrhage (North American)
hæmorrhage (chiefly British)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) haemorrhagia, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek (deprecated template usage) αἱμορραγία (haimorrhagía), from (deprecated template usage) αἱμορραγής (haimorrhagḗs), from (deprecated template usage) αἷμα (haîma) + (deprecated template usage) -ραγία (-ragía), from (deprecated template usage) ῥηγνύναι (rhēgnúnai).

Pronunciation

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Noun

haemorrhage (plural haemorrhages)

(deprecated template usage) (pathology) A heavy release of blood within or from a body.
We got news that he died of a haemorrhage!
(deprecated template usage) (figurative) A sudden or significant loss
- 2013, Simon Jenkins, Gibraltar and the Falklands deny the logic of history (in The Guardian, 14 August 2013)[1]
  Relics of the British empire now mostly survive in the interstices of the global economy. They are the major winners from the fiscal haemorrhage that has resulted from financial globalisation.

Synonyms

Translations

heavy loss of blood

Arabic: نزيف m (nazīf), نزف m (nazf)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 出血 (zh) (chūxuè, chūxiě) (chūxiě is more colloquial)
Czech: vnitřní krvácení n
Dutch: bloeding (nl)
Finnish: verenvuoto
French: hémorragie (fr) f
German: Blutung (de) f
Greek: αιμορραγία (el) f (aimorragía)
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Italian: emorragia f
Japanese: 出血 (ja) (しゅっけつ, shukketsu)
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Korean: 출혈 (churhyeol) (出血)
Maori: ikura
Norwegian: blødning c
Polish: krwotok m; krwawienie n
Portuguese: hemorragia (pt) f
Russian: (внутреннее (vnutrenneje)) кровоизлияние (ru) n (krovoizlijánije), (внутреннее (vnutrenneje)) кровотечение (ru) n (krovotečénije)
Slovak: vnútorné krvácanie n
Spanish: hemorragia (es) f
Swedish: blödning c
Welsh: gwaedlif m

Verb

haemorrhage (third-person singular simple present haemorrhages, present participle haemorrhaging, simple past and past participle haemorrhaged)

(deprecated template usage) (intransitive) To bleed copiously.
It’s haemorrhaging now!
(deprecated template usage) (transitive, figuratively) To lose (something) in copious and detrimental quantities.
The company haemorrhaged money until eventually it went bankrupt.