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Definition
bleed excessively (verb and noun)Hemorrhage is also used figuratively as in: The company is hemorrhaging cash.
- A hemorrhage in the brain is common with shaken baby syndrome.
hemorrhage = to bleed excessively
- hemorrhaged in the brain
- She had wintered at Davos Platz, and was journeying now to join her friends at Lucerne, when a sudden hemorrhage had overtaken her.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
- He said there was so much dirt blown into the wound that there had not been much hemorrhage.Ernest Hemingway -- A Farewell to Arms
- In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them.J.D. Salinger -- The Catcher in the Rye
- Then he hemorrhaged through the mouth.Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
- The plague sores—buboes—are lymph nodes that have been turned into necrotic, hemorrhagic tissue.Geraldine Brooks -- Year of Wonders
- An operation is performed within the month, at Staunton, but he begins to hemorrhage.Michael Shaara -- The Killer Angels
- He told Dr. Edwards, "That Chink knows more about the pathology of cerebral hemorrhage than I do, and I bet as much as you do.John Steinbeck -- East of Eden
- His lower intestine was ruptured and hemorrhaged, the blood collected in his abdominal cavity.Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
- No matter how badly I want for everything to go slowly, time is pouring away, hemorrhaging.Lauren Oliver -- Before I Fall
- Miscroscopic forms of cardiac hemorrhages have become very frequent in recent years.Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
- Moreover, the wounded man had been exhausted by hemorrhage.Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
- You're thinking of hemorrhage?Michael Crichton -- The Andromeda Strain
- Spells of passing out, and sometimes I would hemorrhage at the nose and left ear.Truman Capote -- In Cold Blood
- The liver cell started to change and then hemorrhaged.Ted Dekker -- Black: The Birth of Evil
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt had succumbed to a cerebral hemorrhage at Warm Springs, Georgia.James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
- Only hemorrhages and fires were permissible reasons for a nurse to run.Ian McEwan -- Atonement
- Her voice was weak and gurgled as she tried to speak through the blood hemorrhaging in her lungs and throat.P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast -- Betrayed
- It was as good a thing for his spirit as a saline injection is for a man who has suffered a great hemorrhage.Ernest Hemingway -- For Whom the Bell Tolls
hemorrhage = excessive bleeding
hemorrhages = instances of excessive bleeding