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haemorrhage

noun · verb · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈhɛməɹɪd͡ʒ/
  • General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈhɛmɹɪd͡ʒ/
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1

noun

Meaning 1

British standard spelling of hemorrhage.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • We got news that he died of a haemorrhage!

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

verb

Meaning 2

British standard spelling of hemorrhage.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • The company haemorrhaged money until eventually it went bankrupt.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: bleeding, hemorrhage

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: injury, hurt, harm, trauma

Narrower terms: hemorrhagic stroke, haemorrhagic stroke, cerebral hemorrhage, blood extravasation, hyphema, metrorrhagia, nosebleed, epistaxis, ulemorrhagia

History

Etymology

No etymology was provided for this word.

Real reading context

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