haemorrhage (haemorrhages plural & 3rd person present) (haemorrhaging present participle) (haemorrhaged past tense & past participle )
in AM, use hemorrhage
1 n-var A haemorrhage is serious bleeding inside a person's body.
Shortly after his admission into hospital he had a massive brain haemorrhage and died...
2 verb If someone is haemorrhaging, there is serious bleeding inside their body.
I haemorrhaged badly after the birth of all three of my sons... V
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haemorrhaging n-uncount
A post mortem showed he died from shock and haemorrhaging.
3 n-sing A haemorrhage of people or resources is a rapid loss of them from a group or place, seriously weakening its position.
He said the move would definitely stem the haemorrhage of talent and enterprise from the colony.
4 verb To haemorrhage people or resources means to lose them rapidly and become weak. You can also say that people or resources haemorrhage from a place or organization.
Venice is haemorrhaging the very resource which could save it: its own people... V n