hemorrhage

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Singular
hemorrhage

Plural
hemorrhages

  1. (countable & uncountable) Hemorrhage is the heavy loss of blood from a person's body.
  2. (countable & uncountable) (figurative) A hemorrhage is the sudden loss of something.

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Plain form
hemorrhage

Third-person singular
hemorrhages

Past tense
hemorrhaged

Past participle
hemorrhaged

Present participle
hemorrhaging

  1. (intransitive) When a person hemorrhages, they bleed a lot
  2. (transitive) (figurative) When A hemorrhaged B, A loses a lot of B.