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▪ I. hæmorrhage, hemorrhage|ˈhɛmərɪdʒ| Also 7–8 hæmorrage. [f. as hæmorrhagy; for the form of suffix, cf. -ance and -ancy.] An escape of blood from the blood-vessels; a flux of blood, either external or internal, due to rupture of a vessel; bleeding, esp. when profuse or dangerous.
1671Salmon Syn. Med. iii. xxii. 401 Outwardly it stops an Hæmorrhage. 1732Arbuthnot Rules of Diet 327 Profuse Hæmorrages from the Nose commonly resolve it. 1873E. J. Worboise Our New Home xviii. (1877) 284 Taken very ill with hemorrhage of the lungs. 1880Huxley Crayfish 38 It is likely to die rapidly from the ensuing haemorrhage. fig.1862S. Lucas Secularia 210 We might have been mourning to this very hour a fatal political hæmorrhage. ▪ II. hæmorrhage, v.|ˈhɛmərɪdʒ| Also hemorrhage. [f. hæmorrhage n.] 1. intr. a. To suffer a haemorrhage; to bleed profusely or uncontrollably, usu. internally.
1920W. H. Harvey Misadventures Athelstan Digby viii. 149, I believe he's started to hæmorrhage again; anyhow the dressing is all through. 1933[see X-ray n. 2]. 1984J. McCluskey in M. Evans Black Women Writers (1985) 328 She suffered a miscarriage and hemorrhaged while accompanying him on a field trip. 1989Listener 21 Dec. 14/3 The hooligan had broken my nose... They waltzed anyway while I haemorrhaged heavily. b. transf. To seep, grow, or spread uncontrollably; to be rampant.
1935E. B. White Hymn to Dark in New Yorker 23 Nov. 23 Our eyeballs blistered with unbearable brightness, The neon hemorrhaging, trickling from the tubes, Spilled on the earth like blood from a serpent. 1981N.Y. Times Mag. 22 Feb. 9/2 A newer vogue word—pioneered by David Stockman, the budget hawk—is ‘hemorrhaging’. Terrorism, said General Haig, was ‘hemorrhaging in many respects throughout the world’. 2. trans. To dissipate or expend (something, esp. money) in large amounts, as if by allowing it to drain away.
1978Observer 16 Apr. 38/7 We are not haemorrhaging our heritage away—or, if we are, the transfusions are almost keeping pace. 1987D. Adams Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency xiv. 98 It hadn't taken her more than a few minutes to see that he had been simply haemorrhaging money as Michael toyed with it. 1990Screen Internat. 21 Apr. 2/4 In the meantime, both sides continue to haemorrhage money in legal costs. Hence ˈhæmorrhaging vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1967J. Didion Slouching towards Bethlehem 85 San Francisco was where the social hemorrhaging was showing up. 1975[see submucosal adj. s.v. submucosa n.]. 1985Bulletin (Sydney) 10 Sept. 48/1 Minor-league sell-offs could include the Australian Industry Development Corporation..and the haemorrhaging Australian National Line as a giveaway. 1989Times 22 May 17 We urgently need..to stop the haemorrhaging of commons and greens from the registers. |