1. To bleed heavily, especially from damaged blood vessels inside or outside the body.
2. A substantial escape of blood from damaged vessels.
3. To lose money, people, support, or other resources at a damaging rate.
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Words that belong together
- hemorrhage internally
- hemorrhaging patient
- severe hemorrhage
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The surgeon warned that he was hemorrhaging internally.
By morning, the animal had hemorrhaged into its chest cavity.
She was still conscious when she began to hemorrhage.
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Word forms
- Base
- hemorrhage / hemorrhages
- Past tense
- hemorrhaged
- Past participle
- hemorrhaged
- Present participle
- hemorrhaging
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- hemorrhage / hemorrhages
- Present continuous
- am/is/are hemorrhaging
- Present perfect
- have/has hemorrhaged
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been hemorrhaging
- Past
- hemorrhaged
- Past continuous
- was/were hemorrhaging
- Past perfect
- had hemorrhaged
- Past perfect continuous
- had been hemorrhaging
- Future
- will hemorrhage / hemorrhages
- Future continuous
- will be hemorrhaging
- Future perfect
- will have hemorrhaged
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been hemorrhaging
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Clinical verb; substantial bleeding, not any trace of blood. British haemorrhage is a spelling variant, not a new word. Verb [base, third-person present, past, past participle, -ing]: hemorrhage, hemorrhages, hemorrhaged, hemorrhaged, hemorrhaging. British spelling: haemorrhage, haemorrhages, haemorrhaged, haemorrhaging. Derived/related family (not inflections): hemorrhagic (adjective).
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