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English
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 (rhḗgnūmi) for more.
Pronunciation
Noun
hemorrhage (countable and uncountable, plural hemorrhages) (American spelling)
- A heavy release of blood within or from the body.
We got news that he died of a hemorrhage.
- (figurative) A sudden or significant loss
the fiscal hemorrhage that has resulted from financial globalization
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
release of blood; bleeding
- Arabic: نَزِيف m (nazīf), نَزْف m (nazf)
- Armenian: արյունահոսություն (hy) (aryunahosutʻyun)
- Bulgarian: кръвоизлив (bg) m (krǎvoizliv)
- Catalan: hemorràgia (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 出血 (zh) (chūxuè, chūxiě) (chūxiě is more colloquial)
- Czech: krvácení (cs) n, hemoragie f
- Dutch: bloeding (nl) f
- Esperanto: hemoragio
- Finnish: verenvuoto (fi)
- French: hémorragie (fr) f
- Galician: hemorraxia (gl) f
- German: Blutung (de) f
- Greek: αιμορραγία (el) f (aimorragía)
- Ancient: αἱμορραγία f (haimorrhagía), αἱμόρροια f (haimórrhoia), αἱματόρροια f (haimatórrhoia)
- Hindi: रक्तस्राव (raktasrāv)
- Ido: hemoragio (io)
- Indonesian: perdarahan (id)
- Italian: emorragia (it)
- Japanese: 出血 (ja) (しゅっけつ, shukketsu)
- Kazakh: қан құйылу (qan qūiylu)
- Khmer: ការធ្លាក់ឈាម (kaathlĕəkchiəm)
- Korean: 출혈(出血) (chulhyeol)
- Malay: pendarahan (ms)
- Malayalam: രക്തസ്രാവം (raktasrāvaṁ)
- Maori: ikura
- Mirandese: almorragie f
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: цус алдах (cus aldax), цус харвах (cus xarvax)
- Norman: hémorragie f (Jersey)
- Norwegian: blødning c
- Occitan: emorragia (oc) f
- Polish: krwotok (pl) m, krwawienie (pl) n
- Portuguese: hemorragia (pt) f
- Russian: кровоизлия́ние (ru) n (krovoizlijánije), кровотече́ние (ru) n (krovotečénije), геморраги́я (ru) f (gemorragíja)
- Slovak: vnútorné krvácanie (sk) n
- Slovene: krvavitev (sl) f, krvavenje n, hemoragija f
- Spanish: hemorragia (es) f
- Swedish: blödning (sv) c
- Turkish: kanama (tr)
- Welsh: gwaedlif m
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Verb
hemorrhage (third-person singular simple present hemorrhages, present participle hemorrhaging, simple past and past participle hemorrhaged) (American spelling)
- (intransitive) To bleed copiously.
He's hemorrhaging!
- (transitive, figuratively) To lose (something) in copious and detrimental quantities.
The company hemorrhaged money until eventually it went bankrupt.
2024 May 3, Scott Peterson, “Iran’s official line on exchange with Israel: Deterrence restored”, in The Christian Science Monitor:“That in itself is important for [Iran’s] longer game and their broader strategic objectives,” says Dr. [Sanam] Vakil. “I think they were trying to force Israel to think twice, in order to stop the hemorrhaging around the region of their individuals and of their position.”
Translations
lose (something) copiously
Further reading
- “hemorrhage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “hemorrhage”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “hemorrhage”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.