hemorrhage
/ˈhɛm(ə)ɹɪd͡ʒ/
hemorrhage noun: a heavy release of blood within or from the body.
Noun
hemorrhage (countable and uncountable, plural hemorrhages)
- A heavy release of blood within or from the body.
- We got news that he died of a hemorrhage.
- A sudden or significant loss.
- the fiscal hemorrhage that has resulted from financial globalization
Verb
hemorrhage (third-person singular simple present hemorrhages, present participle hemorrhaging, simple past and past participle hemorrhaged)
- To bleed copiously.
- The patient is hemorrhaging!
- To lose (something) in copious and detrimental quantities.
- The company hemorrhaged money until eventually it went bankrupt.
- “That in itself is important for [Iran’s] longer game and their broader strategic objectives,” says Dr. [Sanam] Vakil. “I think they were trying to force Israel to think twice, in order to stop the hemorrhaging around the region of their individuals and of their position.”2024 May 3, Scott Peterson, “Iran’s official line on exchange with Israel: Deterrence restored”, in The Christian Science Monitor
hemorrhage meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Telugu
hemorrhage in Hindi
- release of blood; bleeding
- रक्तस्राव raktasrāv
hemorrhage in Tamil
- இரத்தக்கசிவு, இரத்தப் போக்கு, குருதி ஒழுக்கு
hemorrhage in Bengali
- hemorrhage, bleeding
- রক্তপাত rôktôpat
hemorrhage in Telugu
- hemorrhage or bleeding
- రక్తస్రావము raktasrāvamu
More languagesFewer languages
- hemorrhage in Malayalam
- രക്തസ്രാവം raktasrāvaṁ
- hemorrhage in Kannada
- ಹೆಮರೇಜ್
- hemorrhage in Gujarati
- હેમરેજ
- hemorrhage in Arabic
- نَزِيف nazīf, نَزْف nazf
- hemorrhage in Malay
- pendarahan
- hemorrhage in Indonesian
- perdarahan
Examples of hemorrhage in a sentence
- The symptoms of conjunctivochalasis range from dry eye, epiphora, and irritation, to localized pain, foreign body sensation, subconjunctival hemorrhage, and ulceration.
- An intralabyrinthine hemorrhage may also be solely depicted by unenhancend T1w MPR.
- Pure chlorophyl in large doses has no effect on the speed of hemoglobin regeneration after hemorrhage.
Synonyms of hemorrhage
Forms of hemorrhage
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | hemorrhages |
| alternative form | haemorrhage |
| alternative form | hæmorrhage |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | hemorrhages |
| present participle | hemorrhaging |
| past participle | hemorrhaged |
| past | hemorrhaged |
Origin of hemorrhage
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.
Words formed from hemorrhage
Questions about hemorrhage
- What does hemorrhage mean?
- Hemorrhage means a heavy release of blood within or from the body.
- What is hemorrhage in Hindi?
- Hemorrhage in Hindi is रक्तस्राव (raktasrāv). See Hemorrhage meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is hemorrhage?
- Hemorrhage can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce hemorrhage?
- Hemorrhage is pronounced /ˈhɛm(ə)ɹɪd͡ʒ/.
- What is the plural of hemorrhage?
- The plural of hemorrhage is hemorrhages.
Words near hemorrhage in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: hemorrhage (page history and authors); hemorrhage (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); রক্তপাত (Bengali) (page history and authors); రక్తస్రావము (Telugu) (page history and authors); hemorrhage (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hemorrhage (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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