hemorrhage
Plural: hemorrhages
Noun
- the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel
- A heavy release of blood within or from the body.
- A sudden or significant loss
Verb
- lose blood from one's body
- To bleed copiously.
- To lose (something) in copious and detrimental quantities.
Examples
- He's hemorrhaging!
- The company hemorrhaged money until eventually it went bankrupt.
- the fiscal hemorrhage that has resulted from financial globalization
- We got news that he died of a hemorrhage.
Origin / 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”); see ῥήγνῡμῐ (rhḗgnūmĭ) for more.
Synonyms
bleed, bleeding, haemorrhage, shed blood, hemorrhea
Scrabble Score: 19
hemorrhage: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordhemorrhage: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
hemorrhage: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary