haemorrhage
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
haemorrhage
- (British spelling, pathology) A heavy release of blood within or from a body.
- We got news that he died of a haemorrhage!
- (figurative) A sudden or significant loss
- 2013, Simon Jenkins, Gibraltar and the Falklands deny the logic of history (in The Guardian, 14 August 2013)
- Relics of the British empire now mostly survive in the interstices of the global economy. They are the major winners from the fiscal haemorrhage that has resulted from financial globalisation.
- 2013, Simon Jenkins, Gibraltar and the Falklands deny the logic of history (in The Guardian, 14 August 2013)
haemorrhage (haemorrhages, present participle haemorrhaging; past and past participle haemorrhaged)
- (British spelling, intransitive) To bleed copiously.
- It’s haemorrhaging now!
- (transitive, figuratively) To lose (something) in copious and detrimental quantities.
- The company haemorrhaged money until eventually it went bankrupt.
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