hemorrhage. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

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hemorrhage

SYLLABICATION:	hem·or·rhage
PRONUNCIATION:	hmr-j
NOUN:	1. Excessive discharge of blood from the blood vessels; profuse bleeding. 2. A copious loss of something valuable: a hemorrhage of corporate earnings.
VERB:	Inflected forms: hem·or·rhaged, hem·or·rhag·ing, hem·or·rhag·es
INTRANSITIVE VERB:	1. To bleed copiously. 2. To undergo a rapid and sudden loss: a gubernatorial candidate whose popularity hemorrhaged after a disastrous debate.
TRANSITIVE VERB:	To lose (something valuable) rapidly and in quantity: The company was hemorrhaging capital when it was bought by another firm.
ETYMOLOGY:	From obsolete hemoragie, emorogie, from Middle English emorogie, from Old French emoragie, from Latin haemorrhagia, from Greek haimorrhagi : haimo-, hemo- + -rrhagi, -rrhagia.
OTHER FORMS:	hemor·rhagic (hm-rjk) —ADJECTIVE


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