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   hem·or·rhage

   /ˈhem(ə)rij/

   noun

   • 1. an escape of blood from a ruptured blood vessel, especially when profuse: "a massive hemorrhage of the brain"
   • ▪ a damaging loss of valuable people or resources suffered by an organization, group, or country: "a hemorrhage of highly qualified teachers"

   verb

   • 1. (of a person) suffer a hemorrhage: "he had begun hemorrhaging in the night"
   • ▪ expend (money) in large amounts in a seemingly uncontrollable manner: "the business was hemorrhaging cash"

   Word Origin late 17th century (as a noun): alteration of obsolete haemorrhagy, via Latin from Greek haimorrhagia, from haima ‘blood’ + the stem of rhēgnunai ‘burst’.

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