hemorrhage

English

Alternative forms

• (Commonwealth English) haemorrhage

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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛməɹɪdʒ/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

hemorrhage (countable and uncountable, plural hemorrhages)

1. (American spelling) A heavy release of blood within or from the body.

   We got news that he died of a hemorrhage.

Synonyms

• bleeding

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
• Finnish: verenvuoto (fi)
• French: hémorragie (fr) f
• German: Blutung (de) f
• Greek: αιμορραγία (el) f (aimorragía)

  Ancient Greek: αἱμορραγία f (haimorrhagía), αἱμόρροια f (haimórrhoia), αἱματόρροια f (haimatórrhoia)

• Italian: emorragia (it)
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• Japanese: 出血 (ja) (しゅっけつ, shukketsu)
• Korean: 출혈 (chulhyeol) (出血)
• Maori: ikura
• Mirandese: almorragie f
• Norman: hémorragie f (Jersey)
• Norwegian: blødning c
• 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
• Spanish: hemorragia (es) f
• Swedish: blödning (sv) c
• Turkish: kanama (tr)
• Welsh: gwaedlif m

Verb

hemorrhage (third-person singular simple present hemorrhag, present participle ing, simple past and past participle hemorrhaged) (American spelling)

1. (intransitive) To bleed copiously.

   He's hemorrhaging!

2. (transitive) To lose (something) in copious quantities.

   The company hemorrhaged money until eventually it went bankrupt.

Translations

bleed copiously

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lose (something) copiously

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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.