haemorrhage
haem|or|rhage /h'emərɪdʒ/ (haemorrhages haemorrhaging haemorrhaged)
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...
These drugs will not be used if hemorrhage is the cause of the stroke.
2 [VERB] V, V to n
If someone is haemorrhaging, there is serious bleeding inside their body.
I haemorrhaged badly after the birth of all three of my sons...
If this is left untreated, one can actually haemorrhage to death.
● haemorrhaging [N-UNCOUNT]
A post mortem showed he died from shock and haemorrhaging.
3 [N-SING] N of n
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] V n, V from n
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...
The figures showed that cash was haemorrhaging from the conglomerate.
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...
These drugs will not be used if hemorrhage is the cause of the stroke.
2 [VERB] V, V to n
If someone is haemorrhaging, there is serious bleeding inside their body.
I haemorrhaged badly after the birth of all three of my sons...
If this is left untreated, one can actually haemorrhage to death.
● haemorrhaging [N-UNCOUNT]
A post mortem showed he died from shock and haemorrhaging.
3 [N-SING] N of n
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] V n, V from n
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...
The figures showed that cash was haemorrhaging from the conglomerate.