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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Excessive discharge of blood from the blood vessels; profuse bleeding.
  2. n. A copious loss of something valuable: a hemorrhage of corporate earnings.
  3. v. To bleed copiously.
  4. v. To undergo a rapid and sudden loss: a gubernatorial candidate whose popularity hemorrhaged after a disastrous debate.
  5. v. To lose (something valuable) rapidly and in quantity: The company was hemorrhaging capital when it was bought by another firm.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A discharge of blood from blood-vessels: usually applied to flux, either external or internal, from a vessel or vessels ruptured by disease or by a wound, and constituting, when considerable and unchecked, an immediate danger to life.

Wiktionary

  1. n. American alternative spelling of haemorrhage.
  2. v. American alternative spelling of haemorrhage.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Med.) Any discharge of blood from the blood vessels.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel
  2. v. lose blood from one's body

Etymologies

  1. From obsolete hemoragie, emorogie, from Middle English emorogie, from Old French emoragie, from Latin haemorrhagia, from Greek haimorrhagiā : haimo-, hemo- + -rrhagiā, -rrhagia. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • agustinolvera "Dont give yourself a brain hemorrhage, Jacob, I would have told him." Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer page4 Oct 4, 2010

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