haemorrhage
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- (US) hemorrhage
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- (countable & uncountable) Haemorrhage is the heavy loss of blood from a person or animal's body.
- (countable & uncountable) (figurative) A haemorrhage is the sudden loss of something.
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- (intransitive) When a person haemorrhages, they bleed a lot
- (transitive) (figurative) When A haemorrhaged B, A loses a lot of B.
- The company has begun to haemorrhage money.