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hemorrhage

noun · verb · 6 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.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /ˈhɛm(ə)ɹɪd͡ʒ/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: HH EH1 M ER0 IH0 JH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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1

noun

Meaning 1

A heavy release of blood within or from the body.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, countable, uncountable

Examples

  • We got news that he died of a hemorrhage.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A sudden or significant loss

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, countable, figuratively, uncountable

Examples

  • the fiscal hemorrhage that has resulted from financial globalization

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

verb

Meaning 3

To bleed copiously.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, intransitive

Examples

  • The patient is hemorrhaging!

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

verb

Meaning 4

To lose (something) in copious and detrimental quantities.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, figuratively, transitive

Examples

  • The company hemorrhaged money until eventually it went bankrupt.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

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, haemorrhage

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: injury, hurt, harm, trauma

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

6

verb

Meaning 6

lose blood from one's body

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: shed blood, bleed

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: exhaust, discharge, expel, eject, release

Narrower terms: menstruate, flow

History

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.

Across languages

Translations

49 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: نَزِيف (nazīf) — release of blood; bleeding
  • Arabic: نَزْف (nazf) — release of blood; bleeding
  • Armenian: արյունահոսություն (aryunahosutʻyun) — release of blood; bleeding
  • Bulgarian: кръвоизлив (krǎvoizliv) — release of blood; bleeding
  • Catalan: hemorràgia — release of blood; bleeding
  • Chinese Mandarin: 出血 (chūxuè, chūxiě) — release of blood; bleeding
  • Czech: krvácení — release of blood; bleeding
  • Czech: hemoragie — release of blood; bleeding
  • Dutch: bloeding — release of blood; bleeding
  • Esperanto: hemoragio — release of blood; bleeding
  • Finnish: verenvuoto — release of blood; bleeding
  • French: hémorragie — release of blood; bleeding
  • Galician: hemorraxia — release of blood; bleeding
  • German: Blutung — release of blood; bleeding
  • Greek: αιμορραγία (aimorragía) — release of blood; bleeding
  • Ancient Greek: αἱμορραγία (haimorrhagía) — release of blood; bleeding
  • Ancient Greek: αἱμόρροια (haimórrhoia) — release of blood; bleeding
  • Ancient Greek: αἱματόρροια (haimatórrhoia) — release of blood; bleeding
  • Hindi: रक्तस्राव (raktasrāv) — release of blood; bleeding
  • Ido: hemoragio — release of blood; bleeding
  • Indonesian: perdarahan — release of blood; bleeding
  • Italian: emorragia — release of blood; bleeding
  • Japanese: 出血 (shukketsu) — release of blood; bleeding
  • Kazakh: қан құйылу (qan qūiylu) — release of blood; bleeding
  • Khmer: ការធ្លាក់ឈាម (kaathlĕəkchiəm) — release of blood; bleeding
  • Korean: 출혈 (chulhyeol) — release of blood; bleeding
  • Malay: pendarahan — release of blood; bleeding
  • Malayalam: രക്തസ്രാവം (raktasrāvaṁ) — release of blood; bleeding
  • Māori: ikura — release of blood; bleeding
  • Mirandese: almorragie — release of blood; bleeding
  • Mongolian: цус алдах (cus aldax) — release of blood; bleeding
  • Mongolian: цус харвах (cus xarvax) — release of blood; bleeding
  • Norman: hémorragie — release of blood; bleeding
  • Norwegian: blødning — release of blood; bleeding
  • Occitan: emorragia — release of blood; bleeding
  • Polish: krwotok — release of blood; bleeding
  • Polish: krwawienie — release of blood; bleeding
  • Portuguese: hemorragia — release of blood; bleeding
  • Russian: кровоизлия́ние (krovoizlijánije) — release of blood; bleeding
  • Russian: кровотече́ние (krovotečénije) — release of blood; bleeding
  • Russian: геморраги́я (gemorragíja) — release of blood; bleeding
  • Slovak: vnútorné krvácanie — release of blood; bleeding
  • Slovene: krvavitev — release of blood; bleeding
  • Slovene: krvavenje — release of blood; bleeding
  • Slovene: hemoragija — release of blood; bleeding
  • Spanish: hemorragia — release of blood; bleeding
  • Swedish: blödning — release of blood; bleeding
  • Turkish: kanama — release of blood; bleeding
  • Welsh: gwaedlif — release of blood; bleeding
Real reading context

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