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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of haemorrhage.

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Examples

  • In short, during the last decade of the twentieth century, Wall Street haemorrhaged risk intelligence.

    Dylan Evans: Don't blame gambling for the crisis! Dylan Evans 2011

  • But he criticised his party, which has haemorrhaged support in recent years, saying it was in the "worst position ever" and needed strong leadership and fundamental change.

    Israel's coalition government threatened by walk out Harriet Sherwood in Jerusalem 2010

  • London-based financiers lined up to accuse Hands, a millionaire tax exile, of "buyer's remorse" following a year in which EMI haemorrhaged more than £600m.

    EMI's case is lost: now Guy Hands must face the music Richard Wachman 2010

  • The day after Anselmo's brain haemorrhaged away, a stricken, incoherent George finally told his parents he was gay.

    Johann Hari: George Michael: An Exclusive Interview 2009

  • When HM Revenue & Customs haemorrhaged the personal and financial information of 25 million British families in November, wags dubbed it the "Privacy Chernobyl", a meltdown of global, epic proportions.

    B2fxxx 2008

  • I was totally bemused by Bill Sienkiewicz when he first started on the New Mutants - and I wasn't alone, I believe the series haemorrhaged readers during his run - but twenty years later those images are still with me, unlike lots of stuff I prefered at the time.

    Top 100 Comic Book Runs #70-66 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008

  • Shortly before this, one of Orwell's lungs haemorrhaged and he was rushed to the Preston Hall Sanatorium in Kent: the first steps along the serpentine path that led to his death from tuberculosis in January 1950.

    Another piece of the puzzle 2005

  • But while Chelsea had not been defeated for 16 matches they have now lost to Manchester United and Arsenal and drawn against Liverpool and haemorrhaged eight points against their closest rivals this season.

    Arsernal 1 - Chealsea 0 : Gallas the Hero 2007

  • Doctors at a maternity clinic in the northern town of Valenciennes carried out the transfusion when the 24-year-old woman haemorrhaged after she have birth there last month.

    Jehovah’s Witness wins in French transfusion case 2002

  • Act. After receving the abortive tablet Misoprostil from a doctor or hospital clinic, women haemorrhaged as part of the second part of the abortion procedure.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

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