Definition of "hemorrhage" in Englisch

noun

1. A heavy release of blood within or from the body.

   • We got news that he died of a hemorrhage.

2. (figurative) A sudden or significant loss

   • the fiscal hemorrhage that has resulted from financial globalization

verb

1. (intransitive) To bleed copiously.

   • He's hemorrhaging!

2. (transitive, figuratively) To lose (something) in copious and detrimental quantities.

   • The company hemorrhaged money until eventually it went bankrupt.