Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - haemorrhage

(haemorrhages, haemorrhaging, haemorrhaged) Note: in AM, use 'hemorrhage' 1. A haemorrhage is serious bleeding inside a person’s body. Shortly after his admission into hospital he had a massive brain haemorrhage and died... These drugs will not be used if hemorrhage is the cause of the stroke. N-VAR 2. If someone is haemorrhaging, there is serious bleeding inside their body. I haemorrhaged badly after the birth of all three of my sons... If this is left untreated, one can actually haemorrhage to death. VERB: V, V to n • haemorrhaging A post mortem showed he died from shock and haemorrhaging. N-UNCOUNT 3. A haemorrhage of people or resources is a rapid loss of them from a group or place, seriously weakening its position. He said the move would definitely stem the haemorrhage of talent and enterprise from the colony. N-SING: N of n 4. To haemorrhage people or resources means to lose them rapidly and become weak. You can also say that people or resources haemorrhage from a place or organization. Venice is haemorrhaging the very resource which could save it: its own people... The figures showed that cash was haemorrhaging from the conglomerate. VERB: V n, V from n